Vicente Mollestad’s
artistic practice develops within an around
the West’s relationship to the non-Western.
Often through connecting phenomenas, ideas and references that were, in some way or another, lost or overlooked. Throughout the body of work there is a recurring interest in the problematics of the seemingly inseperable relationship between the personal and intimate to the political and historical.
Among recent projects is the making of an archive of lesser known European cannibal exploitation film, investigating and questioning cannibalism as anti-colonial strategy, and looking into the role of globale immigration and world politics in relation to the Norwegian rap scene from the 80’s up until present time.
Vicente is currently based in La Paz, Bolivia.
This website is under construction.
Recent/Upcoming:
1. Spriten Kunsthall 28.01.22
The Current is Strong and
Un-Western
2. Telemark Kunstsenter 24.02.22
I Wish You Would Call Me More Often
3. Greenlight District 17.11.21
The Cannibal Archive:
Green Inferno
Speaking In A Language You Are Already Fluent In (2018) is a performance utilising the red light traffic stops that’s usually inhabited by street performers to generate money. The performance itself consists of me punching/boxing a gas can holder for the duration of red light, as a way to insert a discourse/links of violence, the labour of the brown body natural resources and voabulary/language.