How to Buy Art on WhatsApp – Text Zien

Image: Omsk Social Club Psychomancy Syndicate 2020 (in transition). Article by Stella Botes.

Last week I bought my first work of art. The only thing is, I didn’t buy it but ‘claimed’ it, like a ten-pound note on the street, and actually I’ve already lost it. Does this make me a collector? Maybe, but not a very good one.

The work is called ‘Association Grid: Dark Night’ by British artist Ed Fornieles. For now, it is stored somewhere on a zipped file on my phone, waiting for me to create it. The work is strange and unconventional, a series of photos of monkeys and brains and Mark Zuckerberg, fizzing with associations in a stone-circle round, but the way that I bought it was perhaps more unconventional still – via WhatsApp, by texting Zien. […]

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