Tania Bruguera - Surplus Value | The Tanks

Through her on-going art project 'Immigrant Movement International', Cuban artist Tania Bruguera explores questions surrounding immigration - how an immigrant is defined as such and what it means to be a citizen of the world.
Her new work at Tate Modern, 'Surplus Value', advances her discussion with a provocative multidisciplinary piece, requiring people to line up and pass a polygraph test concerning visa applications before they can be granted access to the inner gallery. Once inside the dimly lit space a sign gradually reveals itself through the sparks caused as a migrant worker welds its surface.
The sign reads 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ('work liberates') and is a 1:1 replica of a sign that was stolen from Auschwitz and found cut into three parts.

[@American2715]

Having done the sweeping Google search, this woman is odd. Art is a relative term. As a kid at a Museum, I once saw a Mobile Camper sewage drain in a wall with the artist's name by it. Yeah, relative indeed.

[@reynir27]

This was a very affecting installation. In a way it's a shame they reveal what was in the guarded room as a large part of the works real impact was about being denied access or unfairly privileged to that experience.

[@docufiction]

Is privileged to be an artist or to go to a museum in it self