Mental Athletic - MAFC Issue N1 - Cover 2 Clara Borde

Overview

Clara Borde is a Franco-Portuguese artist who makes garments from unofficial Cristiano Ronaldo merchandise and bootleg clothing. Her work departs from copies of copies, and when the source material is already a simulacrum—a knock-off of a licensed image of a constructed persona—the question of the original stops making sense. What Clara’s archive asks is not what is real but what does real even do for us at this point.

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