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At Art Dubai Sarah Meohas will showcase_ Infinite Petals_, a masterpiece featuring an infinite number of digital rose petals, created with a generative model trained on her own dataset of 100,000 physical rose petals. The work was most recently on view as part of Chanel Culture Fund’s new public art project, The Window, at the Time & Life building on Bruton Street, London.
One of One: For “Infinite Petals,” Sarah Meyohas trained a GAN on a dataset of 100,000 physical rose petals to generate endless, new, and unique petals. This token serves as the Certificate of Authenticity for the digital artwork. Acquisition inquiries, including requests to view the full length artwork may be directed to Katherine Zielinski at kat@makersplace.com.
One of One: Infinite Petals (1,350 Petals starting from Numeric Seed #208219), 2023. - This (1/1) is available for private sale only. Please contact MakersPlace concierge Katherine Zielinski via email at kat@makersplace.com.
Open Edition: This open edition is comprised of individual photographs of the 100,000 rose petals collected during Sarah Meyohas’s project “Cloud of Petals.” These petals were then used to train a GAN to generate endless, new, and unique petals for works like “Infinite Petals.”
Open Edition will be open from Tuesday, February 27th - Monday March 4th at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET.
In February 2015, Sarah Meyohas launched a social token, Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency which could be exchanged in perpetuity for her work. Meyohas backed each original Bitchcoin with a five inch by five-inch portion of her Speculations photographs. These works, created through the manipulation of physical reflective surfaces and water in a traditional photographic studio set-up, portrayed perspectival tunnels extending into infinity. The series is continued to this day, existing both as physical editions and unique NFTs on Ethereum. Functioning as a visual and poetic interpretation of the blockchain technology itself, they hold up a mirror to the alchemical ways in which value is created by the artistic gesture and embodied in art as a financial asset.
UNLOCKABLE
Each artwork comes with a complimentary Bitchcoin-etched Ledger wallet.
This unlockable is available only in the primary sale of the NFT. Ships within 2-3 weeks. Shipping costs calculated upon purchase.
PRINTS
Each of the Liquid Speculations unique digital artworks is also available for acquisition as a framed C-print, in two sizes:
Dimensions: 60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
- Framed 61 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (156.8 x 106 cm)
- Edition of 6 plus 2 AP’s
- $32,000 USD
Dimensions: 90 x 60 inches (228.6 x 152.4 cm)
- Framed: 91 3/4 x 61 3/4 inches (233 x 156.8 cm)
- Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
- $68,000 USD
*Collectors who acquire a physical version in addition to a digital piece will receive a 10% discount on the physical print purchase.
For additional information please contact MakersPlace concierge Katherine Zielinski via email at kat@makersplace.com.
Three new digital works from Shurooq Amin’s 2022-2024 A Woman Of Importance series will be debuted at Art Dubai Digital alongside their physical counterparts and sold as ‘phygital’ pairs in the artist’s, and MakersPlace’s, first official collaboration with globally renowned Leila Heller Gallery.
Each artwork is paired with a unique painting.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
SARAH MEYOHAS
Sarah Meyohas is a conceptual artist whose practice considers the nature and capabilities of emerging technologies in contemporary society. Using the familiar emblems of biological life, Meyohas investigates the complex operations that increasingly govern our world: soaring birds, created using augmented-reality software, flock in unison with the frenetic variations of the stock market; rose petals, aggregately identical but individually unique, comprise the dataset for their AI-created equivalents; Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by physical artworks, questions the speculative value of cryptocurrency and the ineffable value of art. Meyohas creates an intelligible visual language to articulate the systems and technologies that increasingly influence our world.
Meyohas is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery and has been exhibited in New York at Red Bull Arts, 303 Gallery, Rockefeller Center, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art and internationally at institutions including the Barbican Centre, London, the Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai. Her work is also in the collection of The Centre Pompidou, Paris. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vice, and Artforum, and has appeared on CNBC, PBS, and CBC. Her film Cloud of Petals has been screened at various film festivals around the world, including the Slamdance Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival. In 2017 she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Meyohas holds dual degrees in Finance and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and in 2015 received her M.F.A. from Yale University.
SHUROOQ AMIN
Affectionately known as "Kuwait’s OG NFT Queen," Shurooq Amin has been a fine artist for the last 30 years. She was the first Kuwaiti female artist to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, and the first female Kuwaiti artist to be auctioned at Christie's. Amin moved into the NFT space in early 2021 to avoid censorship of her art.
Highly respected and visible in the NFT community, she has an established following of buyers and supporters both in the web3 and traditional art worlds. Her involvement and connections in the space continues to grow with every appearance, exhibit, panel, interview, she does etc and she has a fascinating backstory with provocative artistic content that explores taboos and paradoxes that exist in modern-day Middle Eastern society.
