The famed street artist said the carpet depicting 500-euro notes is a protest on the state's spending on the papal visit as millions of Portuguese face increased inflation.
abc.net.au/news/portuguese-artist-rolls-out-banknote-carpet-to-slam-pope-s-visit/102663560Portugal's famed street artist, Bordalo II, has broken into a Lisbon venue where Pope Francis will celebrate a mass next week and rolled out a huge carpet of oversized banknotes to criticise how much the state has spent on the event.
Bordalo II, known for his political art pieces often made from garbage, shared pictures and videos of the carpet, featuring humungous 500-euro notes, being rolled out down the venue's stairs in a protest he described as the "walk of shame". A number of public figures and politicians have criticised the Portuguese state for its share of the expenditure, which the government put at 30 million euros in January, as millions of Portuguese face galloping inflation.
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