The message in the artwork 

“Themed artworks” are widely favored, even acclaimed, by cultural institutions public and private, both using them to compensate for their deficit of real action in social matters or environmental.



Like anything over-represented, themed artworks tend to acquire a standard value.

Faced with the injunction made to the work of being political, the temptation of the artist (often in a precarious situation) can arise to make his non-militant production fit into a discourse.

But the value of the message does not define the value of the artwork. It is the whole artwork-message that must be considered.

The instrumentalization of art in favor of a clear and articulate political discourse puts the artist in danger of aesthetic enslavement of his work.

Whichever point of view you take, "theme art" seems to miss its.

While it incorporates most of the values ​​specific to occident countries and disseminated in the public media, it is, like them, associated with a form of elitism that does not allow it to sensitize a large public.

It locks itself in the internal circuit of self-congratulation of the art business and remains inaccessible to the greatest number.

On the other hand, it contributes to the dissemination of an aesthetic conception of current politics based on the self.

It is above all important to affirm that the political effectiveness of art is never as strong as when it is assumed as an art in its own right.

Creation, an act of freedom

Only the truly free artist possesses this capacity to speak a deeply singular language, outside of a politically correct or incorrect attitude, depending on where one stands, the two being linked either by consensus or by provocation. admitted.

The artist then provokes critical judgment by an aesthetic shock and not by a crude message.