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Press text Artpractical by John Zarobell
...Another theme at Manifesta 9 is globalization. Making visible new industrial partnerships between China and various African nations, the photographs of Paolo Woods update the documentary photographic tradition represented by another participant, Edward Burtynsky. The expansive, multipart installation by Jota Izquierdo, Capitalismo Amarillo: Special Economic Zone, is composed of a painted floor, curved tables on which Chinese products are arrayed, and a series of suspended video monitors. The documentary videos shown on these monitors include interviews with merchants and producers that explore the new distribution channels in Mexico and Spain for cheap plastic objects and counterfeit designer goods exported from China. The
masterpiece on the topic of how the geographical distribution of labor has gone mad is undoubtedly Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans’s video installation about the globalization of the art world, The Residence (A Wager for the Afterlife), in which a Chinese artist is commissioned by a wealthy Euro-American benefactor to produce an unlocatable house for the afterlife.
