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Single-channel video in which a recurring dialogue is formed by fragments extracted from two seminal public addresses by Václav Havel, former dissident and essential player of post-soviet politics in Eastern Europe. Both of the lines used in this work are the closing arguments of Havel`s New Year Addresses of 1990 and 1991, respectively. This persistent question posed by an individual in continuous doubt alludes to the extreme changes in global geopolitics once the Soviet Bloc fell in Czechoslovakia, but also alludes to the sociopolitical crisis nowadays, both in the region and other parts of Europe. It aims to present the essential contradictions present between discourse and socio economical realities in a context shaken by extreme political happenings: a laconic invitation to reflect on the nature of power and ideology.

Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. His highly diverse work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, USA, Europe and Asia. Some spaces that have featured his work include Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, La Panaderia and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, along with El Museo del Barrio, Anthology Film Archives, White Box and apexart (New York), LAXART, MoLAA (Los Angeles) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. His work has been widely reviewed & featured in local and international art publications & major newspapers such as Flash Art, Adbusters, Art Papers, Código, Art Nexus, Discipline, Celeste & The Washington Post, among many others. In 2008/09, Segura was an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY and at the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. In 2012/13, he undertook artistic residencies and research stays at Hangar ?Centre de Producció i Recerca d?Arts Visuals (Barcelona), MeetFactory ? International Center of Contemporary Art (Prague) and Impakt Foundation (Utrecht). He?s a founding member and board advisor of SOMA, Mexico City.