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Paper money enjoys a conflicting and confusing reputation: It is both ephemeral and eternal, symbolically valuable and materially almost worthless, and timeless yet slowly dropping out of circulation.
Minted during Art Basel 2024, “Defending Your Inventory” embodies the absurdity of contemporary art markets. Through six fictitious bank notes, the project leverages the material expression of the art fair as a starting point to reveal its hidden links to pollution, tax evasion and other obscenities.
By putting this medium in dialogue with expressions of art capital transfer and accumulation, “Defending Your Inventory” sheds light on the visible and invisible connections between Art Basel’s physical presence in the city and the transnational systems connected to it.
Pages
12
Dimensions
90 mm x 200 mmm
Authors
Apsara Flury and Livio Liechti
Design
Apsara Flury
Language
English
Release date
June 2024
Printing
Risograph in Gold and Mint
Edition
40
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Paper money enjoys a conflicting and confusing reputation: It is both ephemeral and eternal, symbolically valuable and materially almost worthless, and timeless yet slowly dropping out of circulation.
Minted during Art Basel 2024, “Defending Your Inventory” embodies the absurdity of contemporary art markets. Through six fictitious bank notes, the project leverages the material expression of the art fair as a starting point to reveal its hidden links to pollution, tax evasion and other obscenities.
By putting this medium in dialogue with expressions of art capital transfer and accumulation, “Defending Your Inventory” sheds light on the visible and invisible connections between Art Basel’s physical presence in the city and the transnational systems connected to it.
Pages
12
Dimensions
90 mm x 200 mmm
Authors
Apsara Flury and Livio Liechti
Design
Apsara Flury
Language
English
Release date
June 2024
Printing
Risograph in Gold and Mint
Edition
40
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