A collection of short animated pieces (“Dripping the Wall [I Am Not a Monster]” -43“-, Contemporary Art Diet -1'27”-, My Girlfriend (with her Takashi Murakami bag) Helps Me Find Inspiration -36“-, and Ten Bad Reviews -50”-) rendered in clear line art, in which a representation of the artist endures various torments stemming from his profession, such as trials or beatings at the hands of curators, critics, and colleagues. In this way, Cueto satirizes the sacrifices of the artist who stoically accepts the punishment he believes he deserves in order to learn and achieve the desired success.
Cueto works in a wide variety of formats, ranging from drawing to installation, including videos and interventions in literary works, and draws on his everyday experiences to delve into common themes such as the tensions within the art world and how power structures are replicated within it. When he portrays himself, he ironically adopts the role of a “martyr of art” who allows himself to be tormented by the current phenomenon of conceptualization and discourse—a reality he refuses to accept but from which he cannot emerge unscathed.