Sleight of Hand (Subject Access Request), 2024-2025 documents about the artist held by the British Museum 56 copies on paper 21 x 29.7 cm This series of documents shows images from the CCTV cameras of the British Museum on the day of the heist, the 18th of June 2024, and emails and reports from the […]
Sleight of Hand (coins), 2023-2025two counterfeit coins on museum display variable dimensions Installation views from “Sleight of Hand” at Goldsmiths, University of London (2024) and “Trick” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo (2025)
Sleight of Hand (letters), 2024letters exchanged between the British Museum’s Legal Services and the artistvariable dimensions, 7 copies on 21 x 29.7 cm paper and translations + 10 x 15 photographs In these letters that starts with the allegation from the museum saying that “we have reason to believe that, notwithstanding your statements to the […]
Sleight of Hand, 2023-2024Two-channel video installationColour, sound, 8’43’’ Testing the boundaries of the law, London-based Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi performed a sleight of hand, temporarily “stealing” a historical coin from the collection of the British Museum. After more than a year of planning, the artist secretly exchanged a 1645 silver coin minted in Newark during […]
Money and its Double, 2025photograph, gelatin silver print on paper23 x 15.2 cm The object that is captured in the two 35mm black-and-white negatives that compose these photographs is a replica of a 1645 silver coin minted in Newark during the English Civil War and that was available in Room 68 of the British Museum […]