Chalton Gallery
(Artdaily.org)

The exhibition presents Yoshua Okón`s early and latest film installations. Focusing on absurd political and social aspects of the North American region, the artist points to the interconnection of transnational phenomena, such as disproportionate consumption, rampant dispossession, and blind nationalism. Okón challenges the boundaries between artificiality and reality by using reenactment as narrative technique, in order to exasperate social dysfunctions. Experiencing this exhibition at Chalton Gallery as an installation of three moving image works, the visitor witnesses a non-linear world. The presented works lie between social performance and simulation, constantly enacting and re-enacting an uncertainty towards what is both seen and unseen. Future Shock invites the viewer to reflect on the consequences that post-truth politics has on reality. Clichés, forms of supremacy, and prejudices empower massive shifts in perception, opening up new worlds of domination that are continually rep