A portable toilet with Chega’s logo and colors. Inside, toilet paper, fake feces on the floor, in the toilet and on the ‘walls’ and papers with André Ventura’s face. The new work by Bordalo II is installed no Martim Moniz, where there is a large immigrant community, one of the minorities most attacked by the party.
Visual artist Bordalo II showed his latest work this Friday, two days before the presidential elections. The work is a criticism of André Ventura, a candidate supported by Chega.
A portable toilet with Chega’s logo and colors. Insidetoilet paper, fake feces on the floor, in the toilet and on the ‘walls’ and papers with André Ventura’s face. This is the new work of Bordalo II.
The artistic intervention was created in square Martim Monizin Lisbon, an area that has a large immigrant communityone of the minorities most attacked by André Ventura and his party.
“The cleaning of Portugal starts here”, writes the Portuguese artist on Instagram.
Accompanying the video is a text of the a project which satirizes conservatism and Portuguese politics, with provocative allusions to topics such as immigration and crime.
“We will free the undesirable that we have within us so that we can then free the country from undesirables. It is no longer possible to go out on the streets, it seems that we are not even in our homeland anymore! We are increasingly surrounded by bandits and criminals. Many of them are involved in pedophilia, money laundering and even theft of suitcases. Unlike immigrants, they do not like to work: they prefer to hinder traffic to record tiktoks or jump ahead in hospital queues with induced heartburn attacks because of the presence of cameras. They are sucking up taxpayers’ money and, instead of doing what they are paid to do, they spend their working days grunting and disrupting the functioning of democratic institutions. They are unable to adapt to our culture and pollute the public road with their religious symbols: it is impossible to pass through a roundabout and not see the image of their prophet accompanied by ridiculous slogans to disguise the fact that they have no ideas for the country.”
The installation by Artur Bordalo, known as Bordalo II, appears two days before the presidential electionswhose polls have placed Ventura as one of the Portuguese’s ‘preferred’ to be the next President of the Republic.
Bordallo II is known for using the public space as a stage for your causes which are, as a rule, divisive topics. In the 2024 legislative elections in front of the Assembly of the Republic.
