EP&W - Exploring Perception and Worth
A ceramic sculpture. A bag. A gift certificate. Each one handmade, signed, numbered - and priced at roughly what you'd spend without thinking twice.
That gap between what something costs and what it's worth is where EP&W lives.
EP&W is an ongoing research project examining how value is constructed around art and everyday objects. Each work takes a familiar form - something that looks like a functional thing, something you might buy in a shop or give as a gift - and places it in a context where the familiar logic of pricing no longer quite holds. The object itself is unchanged. What shifts is the frame around it.
The price is never arbitrary. Squaring the Circle costs what a stoneware sculpture costs. Ceci n'est pas un sac costs what a handmade bag costs. The Gift Certificate for the Buy-Nothing Year is priced at €48.66 - the equivalent of a month's living for someone at the lower global poverty threshold. Each price is a statement about what we agree to pay for, and why.
We live in a moment when the art market has never been more visible or more absurd - where provenance, speculation, and branding determine value as much as the work itself does. EP&W does not oppose that system. It works inside it, quietly, with objects that look like they belong somewhere else. The discomfort that produces is the point.
New works will be added as the inquiry continues. The objects change. The question doesn't.
