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It’s another artistic installation that promises to make people talk. This time, Bordalo II chose the grave of the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar as the backdrop.
The Portuguese artist Bordalo II placed a giant medicine box on the grave of António de Oliveira Salazar, in the Vimieiro cemetery, in Santa Comba Dão. On the box, which covers the place where the former dictator’s body is, the name of the alleged medicine “Liberdade” is read, identified as an “Anti-Fascist Probiotic”.
One “daily dose of democracy”it says on the packaging, it is “free” e “fight oppression”.
This is the The artist’s most recent work, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April Revolution.
Artur Bordalo, better known by his artistic name Bordalo II, He is already known for his artistic installations marked by social criticism and causing controversy.
A “curriculum” of social criticism
In July 2023, Just a few days before the start of World Youth Day (WYD), Bordalo II criticized the millions of euros spent on organizing the eventwith the work “Walk of Shame” – a carpet with images of 500 euro notes placed on the stage that would receive the Pope.
One month later, painted the signage of Campo Pequeno, in Lisbon, in protest against bullfighting and created the “Destradition”reversed the roles