Artists’ collective Claire Fontaine focuses on reflections about contemporary society, analysing through its works the relationships between spheres of power, the individual and the position of the artist. The proposal for Room 1 revolves around the acronym P.I.G.S., coined by English-speaking financial media to refer pejoratively to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain since the 2008 economic downturn.

The show consists of three specially produced works. P.I.G.S., which also lends its name to the exhibition, is a representation of this selective map of Europe. Consisting of hundreds of matchsticks, it alludes ironically to the global socio-political instability that is the by-product of the recent financial downturn, at once a poetical comment on the countless lives that have been wasted, truncated and sacrificed by the corruption of the system. P.I.G.S. is ultimately a reminder of how, and to what extent, we are being governed. (...)

https://www.crousel.com/en/news/claire-fontaine-p.i.g.s.-2011-06-25 (03.01.2022)

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