Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966) inaugurated his first solo exhibition in an institution in Madrid at the CA2M Museum. The exhibition, curated by Alexis Callado, compiles and analyzes one of the most prevalent resources in Sierra's practice: capturing images of people facing the wall, as a form of “portraits.” The journey through his works invites reflection on issues such as immigration, exploitation, exclusion, colonialism and war.
The exhibition evidences Sierra's ability to insert a sense of urgency into the formal languages of minimalism, conceptual art, and performance from the 1960s and 1970s, revealing the perverse networks of contemporary power.
The works selected for this exhibition show that the contradictions of capitalism are also effective in the art space, avoiding any rhetoric and all mystifying resources, thus producing an inescapable awareness of reality. As Sierra himself notes, “there is little room here for ambiguity or the viewer's imagination.” There is not much to interpret. Instead, the viewer feels confronted, starkly faced with their condition as an exploiter through the act of looking.
You can visit Santiago Sierra’s exhibition at the CA2M Museum until February 2, 2025.
