You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry Alternative Realities

"You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry (Alternative Realities)" is a one-minute animation based on characters from a recent video installation “You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry," commissioned by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019. The installation takes the form of a Dadaist romp through the financial crisis. It presents a group of costumed characters, wearing masks, absurdly long ties, and deconstructed power suits. Interspersed with these figures are images that evoke the specter of white supremacy along with disfigured characters trolling the internet and feeding content to nationalist far-right websites. The work addresses the economic inequalities that polarize the USA and the absurd theater of recent politics through the creation of a visceral space that reflects on the mystifying and often irrational forces that mold our political and economic systems, and where the characters embody wildly divergent emotions: from menace to absurdity to despair to despondency. // Aziz + Cucher have been a collaborative team since 1991. Their practice includes video, photography, printmaking, digital animation, sculpture and large-scale jacquard tapestries. They are represented by Gazelli Art House and have exhibited at LACMA, SFMOMA, and the 46th Venice Biennale, among other venues. Verisart Certified: https://verisart.com/works/c7feb580-e4a2-4f05-9eb4-f7de7fb00073