Another of Meireles’s installations, Missão/missões (como construir catedrais) (1987; Mission/Missions [How to Build Cathedrals]), was composed of 600,000 coins, a stack of 800 communion wafers, and 2,000 suspended cattle bones. According to the artist, it was about Europeans, particularly Jesuits, in the Americas, symbolizing “material power [and] spiritual power,…
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