The Economy of Absence: Scarcity and Value in Contemporary Art
We live immersed in an unprecedented proliferation of images. Every day, millions of representations crowd our devices, dissolving the boundaries between seeing and consuming, between presence and reproduction. Never before in the history of visual culture has access to images been so immediate, so free, so omnipresent. And yet, never before has the value of […]
The Illusion of Thinking: On the Comfort of Stereotypes
In the past two episodes of The Illusion of Thinking, we explored how art, much like artificial intelligence, learns to simulate depth and to fear failure. In both cases, what appears to be thought is often a refined form of aesthetic survival: a strategic adaptation to context rather than a genuine act of understanding. But […]
The Art of Confusion: How Markets Transformed Exclusion into Value
For decades, the art world has thrived on a grand misunderstanding: mistaking incomprehensibility for depth. All it takes is an opaque language, a curatorial text heavy with empty words, and what would otherwise be trivial suddenly gains the weight of importance. Contemporary art has turned confusion into a strategy: the less the audience understands, the […]
