AESTHETICS OF CONCERN: Lund Konsthall’s attempt to give political art a new edge succumbs to magisterial claims. LARS-ERIK HJERTSTRÖM LAPPALAINEN reviews BEHOLD, WE ARE HERE at Lund's konsthall. 👉LINK IN BIO. "Is it a stretch to think that political art doesn’t have an impact because art institutions tell us that we shouldn’t believe that we could possibly understand what it’s about? Institutional claims become inflated; the absolutely banal becomes remarkable; art is research, it has methods... No wonder political art is ineffective when we are told that it’s an arm’s-length away, and that it is best not to think that we could take part. I’m so sick and tired of it!" 📸 a) Ikram Abdulkadir, Subax Aliseey, 2022. b) Madubuko Diakité, The Invisible People, film still, 1972. c) Behold, Here We Are, installation view from Lunds konsthall. Photo: Olof Nimar.