DEAL!, 2025 oil on canvas30.8 x 40.8 cm 12 x 16 in Installation views from “Contract” at Luisa Strina (São Paulo, 2025) The painting “DEAL!” is based on a frame from Robert Bresson’s 1959 film “Pickpocket”. In the scene, what initially appears to be a simple handshake is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be the […]
Exchange, 2025Transaction: One original shilling from 1645, minted in Newark (England) for a replica of this coin. Two silver coins, two jewellery boxes, two contracts and two steel shelvesInstallation: variableContracts: 40.5 x 30.5 (x 2) Installation views from “A CRIME, A CONFESSION AND A TRADE” at Nicoletti (London, 2025) “Exchange” is the transaction of an […]
Confession, 2025Notebook, inkjet print on paper, steel24 x 60 x 16 cm installation views from “A CRIME, A CONFESSION AND A TRADE” at Nicoletti (London, 2025) a steel stand holds a notebook with a handwritten confession in portuguese and a printed translation in english. “confession” starts from a double interest that steams from Robert Bresson’s […]
DEAL!, 2025Wheatpaste prints, oil paint, tapeand magnets on steel panel134 x 83 cm installation view from “A CRIME, A CONFESSION AND A TRADE” at Nicoletti (London, 2025)
Pickpocket / L’Argent, 2025Video, colour, sound2’12 min installation view from “A CRIME, A CONFESSION AND A TRADE” at Nicoletti (London, 2025)
Untitled, 2025Vintage Japanese poster in folded acrylic, silver gelatin print and magnets on steel plate30 x 43 x 19 cm
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 […]