Maíra das Neves

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Equine
1998-2023
inkjet print on cotton paper
in collaboration with Rafael Assef
Intermittent, at Tangent Projects, Barcelona From outside the gallery we see a face, a self-portrait taken 25 years ago in which the young artist sees herself as a worker with constrained freedom.

This self-portrait photograph shows us the artist’s own passage of time. In Equine, shown for the first time in 2023, Maíra is an young artist wearing a horse’s bridle on her head, as if she is ready to offer her physical strength to the labour market. Thereby alluding to the kind of contract expected in the industrial era, whereby time and strength were exchanged for a wage.







Equine
Intermittent exhibition view
Tangent Projects, Barcelona, 2023
photo: Tsering Frykman-Glen

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