The Spanish artist Eugenio Merino addresses the contemporary world through the scope of major political and social issues related with justice, peace, transparency, freedom of speech and human dignity. With energy, irreverence, a corrosive humour and a strong and precious ability for critical thinking, Merino tirelessly denounces totalitarianism and corruption, censorship and oppression through his provocative installations. He does not hesitate in bringing back into our cultural spaces the monsters of the past. Perhaps to better trigger collective reflection and urge vigilance towards the current political evolution and developments where Human Rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy are increasingly jeopardised by corporatist oligarchies, multinational firms and unsustainable globalization.

- Pisando Derechos
plays on commodity fetishism with a series of elegant and high quality leather men shoe soles, all identical in shape, size and colour. These soles, framed per pair, fifteen in number, behind museum glass, are shown as storefront displays to advertise valuable fashion items. Getting closer, one can immediately understand the installation's wider political and social significance when reading the laser-printed texts under the soles. They happen to be the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the United Nations.

The metaphorical trampling on the basic principles, resolutions and aspirations laid down in the convention, explicitly reinforced by the title, first provokes a moment of surprise and then puts the viewers in a spirit of concern. Despite the fact that the distressing and improper act of crushing the UDHR remains conceptual only, the mental image arising from the unlikely combination has, however, a powerful thought provoking effect. Trample underfoot the fundamental Human Rights cannot but evoke the crimes committed on the world's populations for the sake of unlimited profit, including the continual war racket, the most dreadful enemy of dignity, rights and liberty.