Ritual revenge: liberating actions

Abstract

We have paid a very high price for the economic benefits for the economic benefits that industrialization has left us. By reducing humans to both “flesh extensions” of machines and at the same time “consumption machines”, we have transformed ourselves from subjects to objects. However, since the beginning of the 20th century many artists have exerted a “ritual vengeance” on industrial objects by slaughtering, combining, and thus extracting them from their original function, therefore reducing them to symbolic objects. In this article 2 works of art from different regions and decades will be studied in which this phenomenon can be observed.