Work → If a Token Could Speak (2023), video projection & holographic video mounted on wood.
[A rectangular box is placed at an angle, in the corner of a dark gallery. The image projected on the box shows an animated character and the outside entrance of The Metropolitan Museum with its banner and stairs.]
The NFT departs from the traditional structure of the exhibition, which is often defined by a future
(announcement of the exhibition), a present (opening), and a past (archive). Instead, the work, its archive,
and its sale are flattened into a single experience. The NFT serves as an archive, and it is this archive
that is sold on blockchain markets. The works in the exhibition question the
status of the collectible object. In the video projection, an NFT celebrates the neoliberal tour de force of the blockchain, allowing
any low-quality image, downloaded, shared, and reformatted a hundred times, to gain the same value as a rare work of art.
A holographic video in the window serves as is an auction catalog, where all the elements of the exhibition
at have been registered on the blockchain as NFTs: the various stages of creation, the animated characters
of the video, the press release, and the exhibition documentation have all been given individual value and sold at auction.