Prêt-à-Porter
Prêt-à-Porter, 2011
Installation. Wooden table, glass, wooden hat forms, hats, permanent markers on newspapers.
250 x 86 x 75 cm
Prêt-à-Porter is an installation that brings together, as a boutique display, a set of colorful hats and antique wooden molds. These hats -created in collaboration with Spanish designer Mabel Sanz- adorn concepts such as Ideology or Power, and venerate monuments such as the Valley of the Fallen (for Spanish dictator Francisco Franco) or a simple empty political fence. They are placed on a table on which we also see newspaper clippings that have been intervened with drawings of burlesque appearance. In the caricatures appear the heads of controversial presidents with hats that come to be antonyms of crowns, degrade rather than extol, ridicule and externalize, in a general sense, the popular feeling about their corrupt leaders.