White Cube

“What can art really do for the world?” is the question artist and filmmaker Renzo Martens is concerned with in his film WHITE CUBE. In his daring attempt to find an answer, he travels to a palm oil plantation of the Unilever corporation in the town of Lusanga, Congo. There, he has the inhabitants produce sculptures, which are then sold as chocolate casts to a hip New York art audience. Using the medium of documentary film, Martens creates a parody in which he asks naïve questions pertaining the art market and deeply examines its mechanisms of power. (Annika Nesheim)… >>>