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Within economy, fear is also an agent.
Especially in the entertainment sector.
We're standing here in front of a work by Tracey Moffatt.
What exactly are we seeing here?
Tracey Moffatt is an Australian female artist,
who has worked a lot with these types of montages,
in which she edits clips from old and new Hollywood movies,
and selects specific scenes which mostly deal with one theme.
So for this particular video,
she assembled some of the most spectacular scenes from different disaster films.
As a result, there is a kind of deconstruction of codes from the film.
This piece is part of the exhibition because fear also has an important level of entertainment.
So people really enjoy watching these kinds of apocalyptic scenarios or films.
We also feel the inner urge to watch these types of spectacular images.
In this case, it's fiction,
but in many other cases, it's reality.