Antonio Vega Macotela

My work is multidisciplinary, site-specific and often engages particular communities. It explores notions of exchange, specifically regarding currency as a mediation device through which social relations are established. It addresses an alienating economic system and its social structures. I use art as a tool that may change the meaning of everyday life as well as re-contextualize it. My pieces work at two levels: first, at a concrete one, they are almost a form of activism, since they have a real impact on people’s lives, and second, at a metaphorical level, when art audiences interpret my interventions as metaphors themselves.