Once within a time: 12th Site Santa Fe International
Exhibition
Jun 27, 2025
Jan 12, 2026
Site Santa Fe, NM
Minerva Cuevas & Paul Pfeiffer
Talk
Nov 5, 2024
Nov 5, 2024
IAG Building, C-PARK Haisu, Shanghai, China
Opening: The River
Exhibition
Nov 5, 2024
Jan 26, 2025
Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China
El Futuro fue Ayer
Exhibition
Aug 31, 2024
Jan 26, 2025
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, CDMX, MX
Coquín
Exhibition
Aug 31, 2024
Jan 26, 2025
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, CDMX, MX
Back
Communication
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Nationalism
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State I
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2002
Billboard
10 × 10 m
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The quote on this poster is from the book The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851), by French theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Despite its temporal distance, Cuevas brings the quote to the present to show us how valid it continues to be in our everyday life as people are subjected to mechanisms ranging from surveillance cameras in the streets to government institutions accessing their personal information. The poster’s background colors remind us of those that tend to be used in flags and political party propaganda. The work distances us from the abstract idea of the system by showing us its concrete presence in the control it exerts over multiple aspects of our lives on a daily basis.

CREDITS

Project for Museum in Progress. Installation view, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2002

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