SANTIAGO SIERRA - FOTOGRAFIEN UND VIDEOS

SANTIAGO SIERRA - FOTOGRAFIEN UND VIDEOS

NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf

A stark and confrontational survey of Santiago Sierra’s photographic and video work.
This publication brings together key pieces that define Sierra’s practice—centered on labor, control, and the structures of power embedded within contemporary society. Through documentation of actions and interventions, the works expose systems of exploitation, often involving paid participants placed in situations of physical or symbolic constraint.
The images are deliberately cold and direct. There is no narrative embellishment, only the clarity of the act and its conditions. Repetition, duration, and discomfort become central elements, forcing the viewer into a position that is both complicit and critical.
Published by the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, the book functions less as a catalogue and more as a precise extension of Sierra’s work—where documentation itself becomes part of the conceptual framework.
A rigorous and unsettling object, essential for those engaged with political and conceptual art practices.