João Motta Guedes
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Human condition, 2022
"Untitled (Human Condition)", 2022
Mein Kampf burned, drowned, hanged, bitten, covered in acid, stabbed, stepped on, shot at, kicked and punched
Variable dimensions
Photo by Bruno Lopes, courtesy of Galeria NAVE.
This work witnesses the destruction of an object that represents evil. violence on violence, and raises multiple paradoxical questions: How to destroy an idea? Is it legitimate to destroy someone who embodies destruction? At the same time it confronts them with the inviolability of the human condition and human rights.