(b. Mexico City, Mexico, 1975).
Minerva Cuevas received a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM, Mexico City in 1997. Cuevas has been working as an artist and activist since 1992, utilizing video, stickers, installation, radio, Internet, public actions and print. The tools are used and assembled at Cuevas’s self-created company Mejor Vida Corp., which is a fusion of art and politics. The artist’s main interests are homelessness, freedom, information, corporate behavior and advertising.
At Mejor Vida Corp. Cuevas has created and distributed student ID’s, sticker barcodes, and letters of recommendation upon request. The student identification cards were issued in protest to the museum practice of charging admission to non-students and sticker barcodes with lower, made-up, prices were assembled to substitute price tags at major franchise supermarkets.
Selfdoor (1998), created during her resid
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