BREAD AND FOOTBALL – a critical visual response to the World Cup as spectacle, distraction, sportswashing, and controlled public emotion, by Behnam Raeesian
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BREAD AND FOOTBALL – a critical visual response to the World Cup as spectacle, distraction, sportswashing, and controlled public emotion, by Behnam Raeesian
Behnam Raeesian is an Iranian visual artist and poster designer working at the intersection of political urgency and symbolic minimalism. Through exhibitions, curatorial collaborations, and international jury roles, his practice examines power, conflict, censorship, and collective psychological landscapes within contemporary graphic culture. Raeesian works through symbolic compression: familiar visual signs are reduced, displaced, or contaminate…
Bread and games keep a people quiet, said the Roman poet Juvenal. In this sense, the bourgeoisie is in double trouble: its system is less and less capable of delivering bread. And it is less and less capable of distracting from its system with games. Already around the last three World Championships there were controversy. But when the ball rolled, it was put aside. The focus was on the game. Not so at the World Cup 26. It is itself the scene of…
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