Bruguera “recompose(s)” the entrance sign to Auschwitz concentration camp as an act of resistance against the labor and demand of our everyday lives. Instead of leaving the work idle in its given exhibition, she periodically brings a Romanian national who happens to also be an illegal worker to polish the sign. Although there is no guarantee of citizenship by sustaining this artwork, the idea that “Work will set you free” as translated from the entrance sign, states that in each context a brutal cycle of demand glues the man to this work. The eventual meaning comes from not its quality and substance as the man so carefully and artfully maintains, but from its historical context as a path to the death of millions of people. This work holds viewers accountable for their own collective memory of this sign and asks, if through democracy can we create a new memory of this work. Bruguera knows that this feat is almost impossible, but she questions what can and cannot be turned into art and whether this was considered art in its previous history.