The consensus factory

The work reflects on the symbiosis between economic power, the political class, and the media in the fabrication of ideological narratives aimed at social control.

Seven images symbolise the G7 countries: the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada. Their sizes are proportional to each country’s GDP. The green background symbolises economic power, which supports political power represented in blue. In turn, the political body imposes alienating thought through repetitive and unanimous messages broadcast by the media, represented by rectangular forms. These forms contain the superimposed front pages of the main newspapers of each country for the same day. The sound consists of the overlapping voices of those presenting the news on the most important channels of each state. Like television commercials, the duration of the work is 30 seconds, suggesting ideological advertising through the media.

The result is a visual metaphor about the saturation of biased information, the impossibility of distinguishing true news from false, and the difficulty of being well-informed in a globalised society.

Work exhibited in:

«XIV Plastic Arts Contest»

Centre d'Art Sa Quartera

Inca (Mallorca, Spain)

From 15/11/2023 to 05/01/2024

«XIV International Exhibition»

Virtual Gallery MundoArti I

Valencia (Spain)

From 29/09/2022 to 30/11/2022

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