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CRISTINA GARRIDO



SELECTED WORKS
· Colored
· The Best Job in the World
· Booth Exhibitions are the Institutions of our Time
· Local Colour is a Foreign Invention
· The (Invisible) Art of Documenting Art
· The Copyist
· Risk Management Paintings 
· Boothworks 
· Best Booths
· Tote Bag Paintings
· Aerial photography does not create space but registers surfaces
· The Social Life of `Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)´
· An Unholy Alliance
· #JWIITMTESDSA?
· They are these or they may be others
· THIS IS ART NOW VOL.1
· TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
 · Veil of Invisibility
· Symptom






TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

2014
Acrylic paint on wall,
site-specific dimensions







This piece consists in the transcription with paint of a recommendation letter written by one of my employers whilst living in London. His company designs and manufactures luxury items. I worked for him on several occasions as an assistant at different Trade and Design fairs. I have previously used this letter to apply to other jobs.
His letter is a positive critique of my non-artistic labour and skills; however, it seems to describe the ideal entrepreneur artist. The time spent in both jobs – as an assistant in a fair and as an artist painting the gallery wall – was given a very different value, even if one was dependent on the other and they took place almost simultaneously.

CREDITS:
Installation views of The Capitalist Function of the Ragpicker, L21 Gallery (Madrid, Spain, 2014)
Details
Images © John Forest
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