Supercopa / Verónica Ruth Frías

Supercopa is a performance in which Verónica Ruth Frías places, one by one, 100 medals on herself, symbolizing achievements and recognitions that often go unnoticed or uncelebrated—especially in the case of women. Through this act, the artist reflects on ideas of merit, validation, and recognition, questioning who decides what counts as success and what does not.

Each medal represents not only professional accomplishments but also small, invisible personal victories—the ones that shape our identity but are rarely celebrated. How many times have women had to prove more to receive the same recognition?

The progressive accumulation of these medals on the artist’s body creates an image of excess, weight, and saturation, revealing the burden of constant external validation.
With Supercopa, Verónica Ruth Frías invites us to rethink what success really means and to reclaim the importance of self-recognition beyond official awards and titles.