PIGS

The PIGS project features work by artists from Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain and aims to reflect a political landscape permeated by cynicism that stems from the paternalistic discourse – loaded with clichés and a sense os superiority – of northern European countries regarding the countries in the south. It presents interconnected narratives in which the selected artists take a critical look at notions such as democracy, institucional ethics, control strategies that dominate the collective subjectivity. Through these artists’ works, it offers other possibilities, other visions, another viewpoint for overturning the established order.
The acronym used as the title provides a pretext for taking a snapshot of what is happening and for bringing to light some of the interrelated accounts that offer us the diversity of layers hidden behind the crisis and the current circumstances.

PIGS speaks ironically and subversively of the socio-political implications of the crisis and its cultural roots, of an accoubnt within Europe that is full of paradoxes, of a fractured pan-European idea, and what the false construction of this idea means for the four countries in question.

Artists: Artspirators, Avelino Sala, Bill Balaskas, Carla Filipe, Carlos Aires, Danilo Correale, Federico Solmi, Jenny Marketou & Zafos Xarogaris, Juan Carlos Meana, Karmelo Bermejo, Nuria Güell, Nuno Cera, Paolo Cirio, Priscila Fernandes, PSJM & José María Durán, Rossella Biscotti, Santiago Sierra, Stefano Cagol, Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Vasco Araújo.

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