Debt: “Monte di Pietà” and “Foreigners Everywhere”
FINLEY RHYS
Complicating the 60th Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere,” Christoph Büchel’s “Monte di Pietà,” situated at Fondazione Prada’s Ca’ Corner della Regina, unravels discourses of globalization and inclusion from the outside. It suggests that actual cultural equity cannot be achieved without confronting the materiality of marginalization; it stands as a significant critique of contemporary capitalism and its historical antecedents.
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