VITRINE: Lifeforms by Sarah Friend

22 January – 10 March, 2024

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Lifeforms are NFT-based entities that need regular care in order to thrive – without proper care, lifeforms die and their corresponding NFT disappears. How do you care for a lifeform? Within 90 days of receiving it, you must give it away. This mechanism inverts the typical logic of NFTs and the art market – which is to buy, hold, and hope the work increases in value. Instead lifeforms ask the “owner” to become a custodian or caregiver that must consistently maintain or care for the lifeform in collaboration with others. It is simultaneously an artist edition of NFTs and as a series of relations between the collectors of lifeforms that is intangible, ephemeral, and in a deliberately ambiguous relationship to the market.