CELIA-YUNIOR (Est. 2004)
Estado civil (Marital Status)
installation/documentation, six matrimony certificates and six divorce certificates
marriage certificates, each: 6³⁄₄ x 8¹⁄₂ in. (17.1 x 21.5 cm.)
divorce certificates, each: 13 x 8¹⁄₂ in. (33 x 21.5 cm.)
overall dimensions are variable when installed.
Executed in 2004-2005.

Acquired directly from the artists by the present owner, 2013

R. Ruiz-Goiriena, “Celia y Yunior: El matrimonio,” El Mundo España, 27 May 2010 (illustrated in color). Accessed on 10/7/2024: https://www.elmundo.es/america/2010/05/27/cuba/1274994310.html
R. Weiss, To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art, 2011, p. 238 (illustrated in color).
A. Beitin and A. Eligio, “In Aachen, Cuban Art Comes Full Circle,” Cuban Art News, 3 October 2017 (illustrated in color). Accessed on 10/7/2024: https://cubanartnewsarchive.org/es/2017/10/03/en-aquisgran-el-arte-cubano-da-un-giro-completo/
C. Aguilera, “Cosmic Future: Certified, Guaranteed, Celia-Yunior,” Fluxus Collection, 2022 (illustrated in color).
C. Aguilera, “Producir una idea de futuro. Conversación con Celia y Yunior,” Artishock, 3 January 2023 (illustrated in color). Accessed on 10/7/2024: https://artishockrevista.com/2023/01/03/producir-una-idea-de-futuro-conversacion-con-celia-yunior/

Berlin, E105 Gallery, Unterm Schweibfell, 2012.
Los Angeles, The Experimentally Structured Museum of Art, Experience 07: Sting, 8 December 2013-19 January 2014.
Germany, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, ART X CUBA: Contemporary Perspectives since 1989, 8 September 2017-18 February 2018, pp. 152, 153 and 213 (illustrated in color).

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists, dated 3 October 2014.

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The aim of marriage and divorce in the artists' context have been diverse, they range from obtaining a buffet provided by the state to sell it later, to also a way of getting a visa to emigrate out of the country. Continuing this strategy, though with a different goal, the artists change their marital status constantly. They get married and divorced legally, and without breaking the law, and try to act in an unpredicted way. They are not interested in working with the physical, but the social body creating an artwork that leaves a permanent trace. This action has been carried out six times, and it has been registered through the legal documents generated by this process.