Giant monopoly installed by Bordalo II at Praça Duque da Terceira, in Cais do Sodré, in Lisbon.
The Lisbon City Council has already removed the work installed by Bordalo II at Praça Duque da Terceira, in Cais do Sodré, and accuses the artist of having damaged the sidewalk.
he installed a giant canvas to represent a board of the game monopoly to criticize the housing crisis in Portugal.
The monopoly is a board game in which players buy, sell and negotiate properties to accumulate wealth and lead the opponents to bankruptcy.
In the Bordalo II monopoly, properties could be purchased in Campo Grande at 6 thousand euros, Avenida Almirante Reis at 10,000 euros and Rossio for 40 thousand euros, values that report to the price of houses per square meter in Lisbon.
There were still the “Houses” from “luxury taxes” to 10,000 euros.
The municipality has already removed the installation by claiming that it is an “unauthorized” work that “represents a town’s asset“As a source from the Lisbon Chamber, the.
The same source ensures that Repair of the Portuguese sidewalk artistic existing on site, which was damaged following this act ”.
Bordalo II monopoly defends the right to housing
Bordalo II assumed the authorship of the artistic installation on its Instagram profile, where it refers to a “monopolized”.
“Our cities are being converted into large game trays. dwellingpresent in the Constitution, is now at the mercy of luck or bad luck“, Criticizes the artist.
“Some players exchange houses for hotels, some mortgage the properties to the bank, others are the bank – but in this game, not everyone starts with the same amount and Few receive when passing the starting house“, Writes it.
