Description
The work “Same Taxes, Same Rights?” is one of the latest artistic projects by Federica Sutti, aka Fè, a queer Italian artist based in Milan who explores themes related to civil rights, identity, anthropocentrism, and the digitalization of the self.
In this project, Sutti uses a “melted” banknote (sliced) transformed into colored stripes with the palette of the LGBTQ+ flag, carrying out a visual and conceptual manipulation of the monetary materiality and the political and social meaning of money, taxation, and equality.
The title itself poses a provocative question: if we pay the same taxes, why don’t we have the same rights? The artist invites reflection on the paradox of formal equality and substantive inequality. The visual structure—the fragmented banknote, the rainbow colors, the manual intervention—becomes a metaphor for social fragmentation, the stratification of rights, and the need to reconstruct a common fabric of citizenship and justice.
