CRISIS: INDIVIDUALLY INTO A COLLECTIVE THROUGH THE PRISM OF ARTISTS

Abstract

Although we live in a time of various viruses, due to the state of emergency of the Covid epidemic, we can ask ourselves what does this disease tell us as a society? Is it a collective detachment from our consumerist illusions imposed by the previous system? Is this disease a metaphysical warning to rethink social standards, or is it just another crisis that needs to pass? By examining the relationship between the two concepts: the concept of identity and the concept of deconstruction, as key to the problematic theme of the crisis, we come to the answer as to why this disease has triggered many other crises within us. By exploring the relationship between artists and crises, as well as artists who have survived Covid, we map various emotions that are a common point of all people regardless of country, race or gender. Crises occur on an individual or social level. At the individual level, they represent a change in a person's normal functioning. At the social level, we see a complex social situation in political, economic, social and cultural systems. ”3 The crisis, in this sense, refers to the problem of identity with the questions posed in his manifesto by Paul Gauguin: “Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we going?".
Key words: crisis, identity, art.