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Santiago Sierra — Brazo de obrero atravesando el techo de una sala de arte desde una vivienda
Santiago Sierra

Brazo de obrero atravesando el techo de una sala de arte desde una vivienda

A worker's arm pierces through the ceiling of an art gallery from the residence above, captured in a stark chromogenic print that confronts the invisible labor and class divisions embedded within institutional art spaces. Sierra's intervention forces a visceral, physical encounter between the domestic and the cultural, the exploited and the privileged. The work exemplifies the artist's unflinching engagement with economic inequality, reducing the human body to a transactional tool that disrupts the pristine white cube from below.

Medium
chromogenic print

🔨 Auction Lot

Under the Influence

September 19, 2013

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Santiago Sierra, Brazo de obrero atravesando el techo de una sala de arte desde una vivienda

A worker's arm pierces through the ceiling of an art gallery from the residence above, captured in a stark chromogenic print that confronts the invisible labor and class divisions embedded within institutional art spaces. Sierra's intervention forces a visceral, physical encounter between the domestic and the cultural, the exploited and the privileged. The work exemplifies the artist's unflinching engagement with economic inequality, reducing the human body to a transactional tool that disrupts the pristine white cube from below.

Medium
chromogenic print
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Photography, Body, Working Class Subject, Bold, Documentary, Male Artist, Architectural, Photograph, Conceptual Art, Installation Documentation, Contemporary Artist, Labor, Social Commentary, Chromogenic Print, Controversial, Provocative, Spanish Artist, Architectural Intervention, Spanish, Contemporary

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