Welcome to Art Advent – Your Chance to Win a Unique Piece of Art!
This December, we’re excited to bring you Art Advent, a special raffle where you can win beautiful works from our talented community of artists! Each week, we’ll be featuring a new piece, and this week, we’re thrilled to kick things off with a stunning work by papertrail from their Banknote Series titled "Defending your Inventory".
More on the Project: Defending Your Inventory
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.
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.
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.
A Souvenir from our Basel Art Summer Camp
If you remember the Basel Art Summer Camp, you’ll recall how special it was. We hosted ten incredible artists at Hyve Hostel during the week of Art Basel, creating a space for connection, collaboration, and exploration. It was during this time that Apsara (part of the papertrail team) worked on this piece, and it was amazing to see it evolve and come to life!
How to Enter?
Want to win Defending Your Inventory? It’s simple!
Just enter your info here and tell us why you’d be the perfect art mommy or art daddy for this piece. Good luck! Deadline 6th December 2024.
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