TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
2013

Acrylic paint on wall.
Site-specific dimensions. (280 x 290 cm. aprox).

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This piece reflects on the value attributed to my time and labour in different contexts. It consists in a transcription with paint of a recommendation letter written by one of my employers whilst living in London. His company designed and manufactured luxury items. I worked for him on several occasions as an assistant at different Trade and Design fairs, and had 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 – is given a very different value, even if one is dependent on the other and they took place occur almost simultaneously.

Credits:
General installation views and details of the exhibition The Capitalist Function of the Ragpicker. L21 (Madrid, Spain, 2014).
Images: John Forest.