Lot

The X Of The Question

35 x 35 x 10 cm

embroidery in cotton thread on money banknotes, wooden spoon, coins

2021

Passing on the edge of social conventions, Cuquinha explores different languages and identifies himself with this story of not separating the art of life - a discourse, in fact, very recurrent in contemporary art. Using everyday life as a motto, he likes to show how the laws are relative, to mess up social rules. What is crime in one context may not be in another. The sale of drugs is illegal in much of the world, but in art it can be consented, for example.