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economic issues, in what becomes a complex and sophisticated critique of a traditional institution, the capitalist corporation. Professor of Latin
American Studies Scott Baugh analyzes this, concluding that, through the satire and parodying of an official business website, Cuevas embodies the âtraditions of the film avant-garde and of the Latina/Latino cultural expression⊠tend to resist, by definition and pragmatically, the conventionality of the mainstream.â
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describes as âmovement as a movement,â incremental disruptions of neo-liberalist policy through social welfare endeavors. Cuevas is the sole proprietor of the Mejor Vida
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Cuevasâs solo exhibitions engage a variety of artistic forms, culminating in multisensory installations that, while operating in high art institutions, advocate public interventionism. Many of these contain specific visual and auditory allusions that generate social commentary. In particular,
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In a text entitled âCorporatocracy, Democracy and Social Change (in Mexico and Beyond),â Cuevas co-authors a discourse on the contemporary dissonance between humanity and the natural world. Her remarks affirm her opposition to the anthropocentric attitude driving industrialization, which has
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In this 2004 book, Gallo recognizes how Cuevasâs connection to the streets of Mexico City and the struggles of working people guides her multimedia, often web-based artwork and social activism.
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billboard series, Cuevas's thoughts on the communicative importance of ânational rumorâ in a modern age find footing in the written record of the Lier En Boog philosophy and art symposium,
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introduce an accessible voice that bypasses the
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provides free products and services, the project distributes âinternational ID cards, subway tickets, and barcodes for grocery storesââall examples of what art historian
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grant in Berlin (2005), reinvited in 2019 for a solo show at the daadgalerie in BerlĂn, Germany, was part of the
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historically occurred at the expense of, not only animals and the natural world, but also indigenous and agrarian peoples. Moreover, initially explored in her
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