Bet (five years), 2025–?
sales agreement, inkjet print on paper and painting
38.5 x 96.8 x 4 cm
15 ¼ x 38 x 1 ½ in

This contract establishes the sale of a painting that does not yet exist, to be delivered to the collector at the end of five years. The proposition addresses speculation in the art market by setting the value of this painting based on a projection: Sartuzi draws on a real case to analyze the recent increase in the prices of his own works and, from this, calculates a moderate rate of appreciation over the next five years. The artist notes that it is in the very act of betting on a given object or circumstance that the conditions for that bet’s materialization are created. In other words, it is through the speculative projection of reality that the conditions are set for the very scenario envisioned by that speculation to come into being.

Photography: Edouard Fraipont

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