Neoliberal policies specific to globalisation have had an impact on numerous projects in the field of contemporary art. Some of these visual expressions have focused on restoring inequality and degressivity, job insecurity, forced displacement or lack of access to the regulated economic system. This text will review the cases of Santiago Sierra (Spain) and Francis Alla (Belgium), two artists with well-established international trajectories that have been characterised by questioning the riders of financial capitalism in their ethical, cultural and political aspects. Santiago Sierra attacks social problems from a political flank with interventions evading conventional categories to tackle art. Francis Alla explores those minimal acts that deviate from the utilitarian logic imposed by the market in order to arrive at unprecedented results. In the light of some theoretical notions of Dominique Wolton, Renato Ortiz and Samir Amin on globalisation and capitalism, artistic proposals will be analysed in the context of what we will call aesthetics of the precarious, i.e. critical ways of interpellation at real level.