Save The Leaders

Reading note

Save The Leaders belongs to the Behind the Obvious series, in which Abraham Aronovitch transforms the bathroom mirror into a device of vision: a surface that distances reality in order to reveal its social constructions. Facing the mirror, a figure observes a fragmented scene of ruins in which the image of authority is reenacted. The work questions the responsibility of power and the way politics presents itself as a staged performance within structures that remain inherently vulnerable.

Here, the reflection does not return a face, but a theatre in decomposition. Amid the ruins, suited leaders maintain a posture of stability and controlled language, while a boxer rises as the raw icon of a hollow victory. Held at a distance by the reflective surface, the gaze of the blue figure points to a tension between those who govern and those who perform. Beneath the representation of authority, the painting allows the unsettling fragility of both the setting and its occupants to surface.