Santiago Sierra
Posted on Janeiro 19, 2010
Santiago Sierra’s work reflects his views on capitalism,labor, and exploitation. For instance, he paid a group of workers to move a heavy rock from a point A to a point B and vice versa. On another occasion he paid drug-addicted  from Brazil and Cuba in their drug of choice to let them have a line tattooed across their backs. Another project, he covered ten Iraqui Immagrants in insulating polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden, as a methapor fo the war on Iraq.
In 2006, he provoked controversy with his installation “245 cubic metres”, a gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in Pulheim, Germany, where people could only enter with gas masks.
Check out this video explaining a little bit of his work:
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