A Love Letter | 40 seconds | 24FPS | 16:9 |
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Who/Wh?t

During the summer of 2020, I was rejected from SuperRare. Yet, as an artist, I was still creating. I began releasing my work on open platforms and building my reputation with my art before applying to SuperRare again later in the year. Since then, I have been working with SuperRare almost exclusively and they have helped me reach many goals in my career. 

“Refusé Pare Le Crypto Art” signifies the growth and opportunities that you can make possible when you believe in yourself and prove that you’re intrinsically valuable beyond the verdict of any admissions process. Much of what we experience in the industry is a result of business practices and logistics. It is limiting to measure one’s worth solely on others’ definition of one’s potential.

This new work mirrors the ideals seen in the“Salon des Refusés”. Held in 1863,  the exhibition featured a number of works rejected by the Paris Salon, the leading academic curation of art since the 17th century. The show exclusively displayed works that had been rejected by the Academy, leaving the submitted pieces bearing a stamp from the Paris Salon to signify perceived shortcomings. “Refusé Par Le Crypto Art” is a love letter to my journey on SuperRare, as well as the freedom that this significant exhibition created for the Western art world, a first step in the direction of freedom, one that is still relevant today but is by no means complete.

87cm x 146cm x 7cm 

Refusé Par Le Crypto Art

Zizi - Queering the Dataset #1

Nonbinary

Grave markers of tetrapod

Celestial Perception

Gemini

INCARNATION I ☥

The Magician

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The freedom of being yourself, oneself or an other is often talked about when using online platforms such as social media, gaming or AR/VR experiments – The idea of having an alterego and being more than the self IRL is something that many individual from communities either being from a specific ethnic minority and/or queer have seeked when not being accepted in their societal environment. The web becomes an escape and a way of re-building/creating one’s identity and story. This selection is dedicated to queerness and being FREE!

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