Minimal Republics
Spain
2019
Minimal Republics is a series of actions on the landscape in application of a performative exercise:
- claim 100 m² of land
- draw a border
- inhabit it
The results are “ephemeral microstates”, the limits of which always follow geometry, the most artificial criterion for a border, that lasts no longer than 24 hrs and the sole inhabitant of which is the artist himself. These ridiculous and absurd states are documented with photographs and aerial videos that invite us to consider the artificial and ephemeral nature of any border.
Minimal Republics is part of STUPID BORDERS, a series of conceptual projects that question the concept of “nation” and highlights the strange feeling of ownership that we have in relation to the Earth.
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About the artist
Born in 1977, Rubén Martín de Lucas is a spanish photographer graduated as civil engineer and is one of the five founders of Boa Mistura, an urban art collective with whom he worked all over the world.
In January 2015 he began his solo career, focusing his work on the relationships between human beings and the territory. Photography, video, actions on the landscape and painting are common media in his artistic language.