Encuentre las 10 diferencias, 2009
2 TVs, cable connection, paper sign
Dimensions variable
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This work is comprised by two television sets. One of the TVs displays live programming from Venezolana de Television (VTV), the government TV broadcast. The other unit shows live programming from Globovisión, the private opposition broadcast company. Both TVs are separated by a sign that says “Encuentre las 10 diferencias” (Find the 10 differences.) Both TV channels are mandatory references to the Venezuelan audience. On one side, Venezolana de Television builds its speech in favor of the policies and actions of the current government, while the other channel broadcasts the opposite, the antithesis to any gesture performed by President Hugo Chávez. The installation is fed by the content produced by media; offering in real-time the meeting of two opposite speeches; revealing two angles that are nothing but the image of the unfortunate division and bipolarity of Venezuela due to a political circumstance. Anyway, it is the viewer who has the final task: to find the 10 differences. |