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We are three female artists who reflect on the impact of the market on people. We have focused on studying the mechanisms through which the market operates and how deeply it is embedded in most of the daily decisions we make. Exchange, the search for balance, risk-taking, reciprocity, the currency of trade - these are words that resonate and inevitably intersect with human characteristics that fluctuate between selfishness and generosity, violence and the need for peace, deception and truth, crime and justice, individualism and cooperation. The market is a universally applied system. Why not study it, reflect on how much it conditions us and how much we condition it? Hipermercado Casino reflects on this and works by making connections between the individual and the system. Themes have been developed in various contexts such as religion and its exchange mechanisms, relationships and their transactions, the price of honesty, always observing where we identify a topic that generates the friction that captures our attention.

In our work, which primarily encompasses Installation, Video, Performance, Photography, and Object art, we develop another aspect that we consider essential and unique to working in a collective. This is the incorporation of dialogue and negotiation to arrive at a result. Expanding one's own perspective, complementing ideas, identifying, acknowledging, and correcting errors, cooperating - these are practices that may seem obvious to accept when choosing to work in a group. However, the commitment behind it is that each work we produce is the result of the most ideas, the best solutions we have collectively chosen, and that the work has leveraged the individual characteristics that each member brings.

Why the word 'Casino' in our name? Because we recognize that the role we play in society has an element of chance. Any parameter for measuring happiness, success, or well-being has to acknowledge the existence of probability. This is what magnifies differences. What does it mean to win or lose? What rewards do we expect when taking risks? Many questions that can be answered on different levels. Going back to the primary concept, we see chance as a part of our reality. On one hand, it can mean risk and danger, but it also holds that latent opportunity that makes us dream. So, we go all-in with our art, to contribute our perspective filtered through conversation and consensus.