Santiago Sierra

Born in Madrid in 1966, he lives and works between Madrid and Mexico City, producing performance, installation, video, and photography that expose the mechanisms of capitalist labour and social exclusion. His practice frequently involves paying marginalised individuals to perform degrading or physically demanding tasks, implicating both art institutions and viewers in the structures he critiques. Among his best-known interventions is a 2003 work at the Venice Biennale in which the Spanish pavilion was sealed and made accessible only to holders of Spanish passports.