Santiago Sierra
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Santiago Sierra (born 1966) is a Spanish artist. He lives in Mexico City.
Santiago Sierra's work reflects on the uselessness of capitalism, 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 prostitutes from Brazil in their drug of choice to let them have a line tattooed across their backs. He also caused controversy by covering ten Iraqi immigrants in insulating foam and waiting for it to harden. Another of his well known projects is a room of mud in Hanover, Germany, commemorating the job-creation measure origin of the Maschsee.
In 2006, he provoked controversy with his installation "245 cubic metres", a gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in Pulheim, Germany.
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- Guardian: Artist's homemade gas chamber angers Jewish groups
- Guardian: Chamber of horrors
- Guardian: Buried alive
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