The PinchukArtCentre presents Democracy Anew? a major international group exhibition including Francis Alÿs, Allora & Caldzadilla, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Damien Hirst, Zoë Leonard, Goshka Macuga, Takashi Murakami, Sondra Perry, Pascale Martine Tayou, Luc Tuymans and Rachel Whiteread. “I want a dyke for president.” It is the first sentence of the exhibition and the opening of the 1992 Poem by Zoë Leonard called `I want a President.` Although written more than two decades ago by a feminist activist poet in the USA, it has lost no relevance either to the US or to Ukraine. The poem provokes considerations toward recent global elections that shifted balances of power and sharply points towards the upcoming presidential election for Ukraine on March 31, 2019 as well as the Parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 27, 2019. This provocation is present, future and past.
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