Globalisation is, “the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture”. In this reading there were two very different authors that had divergent ideas to go about expressing art. Andreas Gursky was a photographer who had a unique sense of style. He would digitally manipulate and enhance his images to “create an art of spaces larger than the subjects being photographed”. Gursky’s art, “largely focused on the industrial and technological possibilities of globalisation, he uses digital manipulation to bend our sense of perception to the outer edge of credibility, creating a world we recognise but also one which is partially imagined and not yet realised”. The way both Gursky and Sekula approached their art work, highlighting the different ways Globalisaion can be understood is what set them apart
from one another. Some people would agree that the Global justice movement has tested capitalism. Allan Sekula, on the other hand, “focused on the limits of globalisation. Following the deterritorialised flow of capital, he focuses on the wave of industrialisation in the developing world which has relocated old technologies into this new context. Within the two worlds of Globalisation, Sekulachooses to focus on the one inhabited by the poor, the marginalised and the dispossessed”. Gursky’s art depicts a world in a sense that is still to come while Sekula’s work depicts a world that has already passed. “The multitude is in a process of becoming by invoking a world that is not (yet). ‘Another World is Possible'”. With art work, there is always a deeper meaning. The struggles that are conveyed in these pieces of artwork solicits the possibility of a world becoming. It conveys hope among all things.
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