représentation

What has happened in politics is exactly what has happened in art: in the West, representation is in crisis. Just as painting is slowly but surely moving towards less and less representation of the world and more and more abstraction, even absurdity, representative democracy is on a slippery slope. A non-negligible proportion of the population can no longer identify with what museums, as reservoirs of paintings, or political parties, as reservoirs of politicians, have to offer.