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Ana Pérez-Quiroga
The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores

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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011
225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.
Artist's edition / folio printed on IOR 160gr paper; text in vinyl sticker.

Installation The world in its true colors/ O mundo nas suas verdadeiras cores, 2011, at Appleton Square. Produced in Lisboa between 14.10 and 12.11.2011.


The piece consists of 225 strips of pure silk in 75 different colors which are repeated three times. Each strip of silk measures 36x200cm and is embroidered with APQ in different colors.

The piece is divided into three groups that make up a whole. A first group, which will be sold complete to a collector, a second, belonging to the artist, and a third whose 75 strips of silk will be sold individually. Each strip of silk is priced at 60 Euros.

The idea behind this third group is the sustainability of art, through inviting the active participation of the spectator, who, by means of the financial transaction, becomes both co-author and investor.

The aim is to invite viewers to participate in the construction of the work, as partners in the project through the acquisition of a strip of silk. This is then appropriated by the buyer who, through the use he or she puts it to, endows the object with a new dimension. The strip of silk can be framed or used as a scarf and this union between person and object is recreated in a ‘living sculpture’.

By buying a strip of silk, the buyer is also contributing to funding the work, which will be concluded with the publication of a book. The buyers as a group thus become investors in this project.

With the future publication in mind, each participant is asked, at the time of purchase: ‘Why did you choose this color?’, thus explaining the relationship they have with the color chosen. It is also hoped that the participant will identify him or herself, though this is not obligatory. This identity, a form of signature, transforms the buyer into co-author.

The unique signature enables the strip of silk to be appropriated by the buyer, now co-author. The piece continues to exist beyond the gallery, contaminating public space. Its durability contributes to its validation as an artistic object, in the context of a market economy governed by the dynamics of supply and demand.

The purchase of a strip of silk is the performative act by which the buyer becomes co-author and investor. After this act the co-author/investor may take his or her strip of silk.

As an investor, the buyer will make possible the production of an artist’s book, in an edition of 225 copies. The book will include the chromatic mapping of the 75 participants (the response to the question: ‘Why did you choose this color?’) and texts by the curator, the arts administrator, and the artist.

The co-authors share responsibility for the project with the author. They not only acquire a piece and a book but they also, through their participation in an economic process, give meaning to the work. The strip of silk undergoes a varied series of states – the industrially produced object, the exhibited work, the published record of the process – due to the activation of various procedures and decisions by the author and her co-authors who are linked by the act of buying.
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Invitation Photo
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Exhibition Stamp