“Artists do not have to produce work about the pandemic” is a text installation that uses the title phrase as text for the work itself. It consists of a printer and a guiding sign to the audience to print one paper and hang it on the wall. It takes a direct form of opposition or statement to the calls that have been released by art institutions and galleries inviting artists to submit work on the Corona pandemic or about the confinement. 
Coinciding with the crisis that started earlier this year due to the new COVID-19 and its accompanying freezing of all aspects of normal life to include art events, exhibitions, and residencies, which sharply affected a large sector of artists especially those in developing countries that its government was not able to provide grants under these circumstances to complete their projects. 
The work questions the nature of these calls and the apparent support they represent to artists, while they act as an indirect form of pressure and force; an intention not to let the wheel stop or the show to end.
It is not about the quick reshaping of opportunities and support that the art system was willing to provide, but it is about the “push” to create work through funding schemes about the pandemic. 
The installation takes a form of objection, but at the same time a kind of contradiction, as after all it represents what I did not like to do during the pandemic but being part of the system, the only way to create work against the system is through it.