Europe
Eva Barto
Promesse d’endettement provisoire 01 (Promise of Temporary Debt 01)
2016
The work, Promesse d’endettement provisoire (Promise of temporary debt), begins with a contract signed with KADIST. The value of the debt is decided by the collector and determines the duration of the contract before the artist proposes a final output. Discussions and negotiations occur during the awaiting period.
With this piece, Eva Barto questions the rules governing the law of supply and demand, the issues of property and speculation, and the way to address specific outputs for each context, specifically here for the KADIST collection itself.
Eva Barto (born in 1987, France) — currently based in Paris.
"(...) avoiding description, our character deals with ambivalences stemming from property issues, such as broad definitions of what owning could mean (a legal loophole mastery, a misleading language apparatus, an ambiguous philanthropist posture), on what authorship could reclaim (see plagiarism studies), on how power can leak and decrease (unmanaged time, undisplayed images, unexpected downturns) (...)"