In 2001, Dora García began her long Golden Sentences series using letters inscribed with gold leaf on walls or printed on T-shirts. While the golden colour gives the phrases a certain material preciousness, the themes are always linked to common sense. Although some are taken from well-known figures, most have been devised by the artist. Effectively ambiguous, some are poetic, others cryptic, ironic, mocking, witty or provocative, yet they all offer more than one reading and often incite action. Presented as truisms and never as quotations, they act as potentials or activators of thought. Golden Sentences encapsulates Dora García’s attitude toward culture, one that does not value the intellectual register over the popular. Rather than a univocal interpretation and a closed semantics, she prefers the freedom of an open reading as in the case of the phrase She has many names, by Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004), the North-American poet, academic of Chicano cultural theory, feminist theory and queer theory. As García explained in an interview at MACBA in 2023: ‘It is a sentence from 2019 or 2020, and it’s from a poem by Gloria Anzaldúa. It fits in with the research I’ve been doing on Kollontai and Marxist feminism in relation to the fourth wave of feminism, which comes from Latin America or what used to be called the Global South. It brings back the idea of class, also linked to racialisation. And also the idea of love as a political tool. What Kollontai described as “comradely love” is now called “radical tenderness”. […] “She has many names” refers to the feminine deity that keeps on metamorphosing.’