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May 9, 2026symplokē

In Visibility: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Seeing Infrastructure

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SBS. BergsUtrecht University

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This article analyzes artworks revealing infrastructure's political impact, suggesting implications for social justice.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how artworks depicting infrastructure challenge its perceived invisibility and engage with political implications.
  • Analysis of artworks, particularly Karrabing Film Collective's 'Day in the Life (2020)'
  • Critical assessment of infrastructural inversion and its social/political contexts
  • Examination of the relationship between visibility and power dynamics
  • Infrastructure's visibility is intertwined with social justice issues and power structures.
  • Art can serve as a tool for uncovering infrastructure's political dimensions and engaging public discourse.
  • Addressing infrastructure requires recognizing historical contexts and their influence on perception.

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S. Bergs (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fed17eb9154b0b82878e17https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2025.a989273
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