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 […]
False Alarm: Symphony for Museum, 2023-2025 universal fire alarm, high-power bell,signaling siren, buzzer, microcontroller, relays variable dimensions, 01’49’’, four times a day The symphony first start as if an alarm went off, disturbing the normal experience for the visitor. From there, different “voices” and layers gather to create this complex arrangement of sounds in a […]
beep 2023-2025buzzer, microcontroller, laser and sensor modules variable dimensions On their way out, when one is trying to leave the room, they will trigger the alarm. The sensor is one of those normally used in museums and exhibition spaces to control the proximity of the visitor in relation to the works. In this way, every […]
turn me off, 2023-2025switch, microcontroller, relay, speaker variable dimensions In this hall, near the elevator, a voice — at first low and muffled — is coming from the inside of a light switch on the wall. This small object repeats, with a certain variation, the phrase “turn me off”. Whispering from the wall, and then […]
Signal, 2021-2025modified museum lights, microcontroller, relays variable dimensions Still on an infrastructural level, the lights of the space don’t seem to be working properly. They have a life of their own. They blink. They communicate with each other. There is an encrypted signal message and a response. In morse code. Or they play games of imitation, […]
Watchman, 2023-2025security camera, aluminum, DC motor, signal converter and TV variable dimensions At the center of the room, the most visible intervention, there is a camera that spins on its vertical axis. Hanging from the ceiling, the CCTV camera transmits the live image of the room to a TV in the space. As the camera […]