The Original Conceptual Frame

This work deals with Walter Benjamin's concept of aura. It questions the nature of reproducibility in art and the role of institutions in aesthetic appreciation. The glued frames intend to show the repetition of reproductibility, and role of institutions is represented by the own frame. It is also colored gold in order to talk about the superficiality of economic values in the world of art. There is nothing inside the frame, in order to talk about the empty choices of some contemporary curators. And it is also in a frame (the black frame) and in a non-unique minting, in order to critique myself in doing the same thing. The related physical work was last exhibited at Biennial of European and Latin American Contemporary Art - BELA - 2021 (Brazil), by AVA Galleria, and it is a wood frame assemblage painted in gold inside a frame.