Africa Processor (2011) Painting by Jialba

Acrylic painting on canvas

The work is part of an exhibition made in 2011 under the pseudo José Alba, (jialba), whose title was: EX SYMBOLS

Models in their underwear lit by neon colors in the windows of the restaurant ArtiPasta Restogalerie in Brussels, this November 2011, sparked controversy. The artist José Alba, (jialba), denounces the commodification of the human being, his enslavement to the "silver god" made of gold and banknotes. The cult of the Golden Calf and Globalization. History repeats itself endlessly. But: "There are two stories: the official story, lying, and the secret story, where are the real causes of the events." Honoré de Balzac
The foundations of our society, democracy, is emptying its core. Have we sold our soul to the economy? Is there still a place for alternation, referendum and political vitality with the hope of influencing our future and that of our children?
The female characters in his paintings are, according to him, the metaphor of the human in loss of humanity. Loss of fundamental values to the point of slowly converting themselves into pure objects of consumption. The female bodies are tattooed with electronic circuits, jewels of soft and sensual technologies. These marks in their flesh seem indelible. This installation features humanity that has become a slave to its own desires.
The human body has become an ordinary business, another showcase, just "business".
The desire for possession is motivated by the need to secure one's future, which remains uncertain.
and the acceptance that everything in this world is traded, both the work of humans and humans themselves, as well as the acceptance that everything should always cost as little as possible and then be resold as expensive as possible, leaving behind half the humans that very few care about. Whatever the regime, the sacrifice of the poor is the engine of societies.

Continuous deindustrialisation, middle classes which are disappearing, purchasing power in free fall, relocations, unemployment, cpas, increase in pensions, inequalities (justice, income, capital ...) which are accentuated, etc.
And always the same policy, the same people, with the same elite for the same disaster (globalization, Europeanization, nomadism, individualism, multiculturalism, privatizations, liberalization .....) ...
"Politics is the art of preventing people from meddling in what concerns them" Paul Valéry
Bankxenetism Monetary prostitution Horn of importance Bankster
Financial prostitution engenders the same evils as sexual prostitution:
"Trafficking in human beings, drug addiction, poverty, violence, ..."

In these achievements, there is a journey between reality and spirituality where there is an alchemy of dreams that encourage us to reconnect with our soul.

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