Wonderful collaboration with The Illuminator Online Magazine.

Title of Series: European Disillusion
Date: April 2012

"In collaboration with The Illuminator, Brazilian born artist Mariana Amaral explores her own personal perceptions of the European Union through a series of work. She talks us through each piece, revealing an insight into the way in which inspiration is drawn from the political sphere."

Personal statement about the work:  “Let’s invite our starving cousins to the European table; it’s only the humane, brotherly thing to do, of course. And while we’re at it, we’ll pool our value together, so we can all eat richer food. Oh wait, our cousins cannot afford it? Well, they’d better, because we have economic needs which require power and might in the economic sphere. And if our cousins end up eating scraps from under the table, well so be it. At least they are eating better than they were before.”

“Vladimir told you so” portrays both sides of a contradictory political view of the Euro: the blindness of some against the surrendered personification of poverty.

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European Disillusion - Vladimir told you so