Your Freedom Ends Where an Other Man's Nose Begins

Spanish artist Ampparito often takes simple objects from everyday life and destabilises them. The artist explains that his work focuses on "subverting objects, meanings, and realities to generate new experiences or situations." His results range "from the most absolute indifference to the deepest reflection, through disorientation or contemplation."
In this work, Ampparito considers the festival theme of power and its relationship with the related concept of freedom. His anatomical study of the moulded plastic elbow of a Playmobil figure responds to its lack of power. By breaking the figure's arm, he creates an elbow and the possibility of freedom of movement, but the figure ultimately loses its power of stability by doing so. Ampparito notes that this work is also a response to the proverbial expression that "your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins."