Loophole (2015)

Loophole (2015) by Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto. Four miniature books, each punctured by a circular hole, sit inside a clean white cardboard box. The box, too, carries a hole. The cut belongs to Prieto’s ongoing series of artist’s books, where the recurring circle becomes a constant. His gestures of extreme minimalism and spontaneity, points to the simplicity of reality. As in his earlier works, Prieto gives new weight to widely known, accessible items — sometimes even his own belongings. He extracts, then disrupts the context of the original and, when those objects are publicly recognizable, he overlays them with a new narrative. Demonstrated through these interventions, the re-contextualized object always leads you back to its origin — nowhere.

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Design / Packaging by Oficina 200BIS