Santiago Sierra

Santiago Sierra (born 1966) is a Spanish artist. He lives in Mexico City.
Sierra's work reflects his views on capitalism, labor, and exploitation. For instance, he paid a group of workers to move a heavy rock from a point A to a point B and vice versa. On another occasion he paid drug-addicted prostitutes from Brazil in their drug of choice to let them have a line tattooed across their backs. He also caused controversy by covering ten Iraqi immigrants in insulating polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden. Another of his well known projects is a room of mud in Hanover, Germany, commemorating the job-creation measure origin of the Maschsee.
In 2006, he provoked controversy with his installation "245 cubic metres", a gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in Pulheim, Germany.

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[videosdelnomo]

oyee buenisima mezclaaa fenomenamilisima diria!!!  estoy haciendo untrabajo sobre santi y me ha venido feten para ver todas sus cositas!

[backwoodsgps]

have had dreams like thease

enticing seductive

but hopeful

[moonlightnoir]

"Estoy siendo remunerado para decir (o hacer) algo cuyo significado ignoro"... I cannot avoid some questions about his art. How much money was spent to create it? Who finances and who is the consumer of his art, people who he hires? What is the proportion between the values that he receives with the commissioned registers of these projects and what he pays to who lends him a service?... Sorry, but it seems like something politically contradictory because it isn't ingenuous :-)