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02.06.2023 20:00

Book launch

Pay what you can

Capital Compression (Arnout De Cleene & Michiel De Cleene)

As the wind deposits dust, and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms. The amassment of dirt and specks transfers pressure upon pressure, upon pressure. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression into capital.

Capital Compression explores the poetics of blockchain technology – photographically and discursively. The publication employs and tests strategies of authentication and documentation. A hashed poem in nineteen lines, a series of twenty photographs, and an essay intertwine. Each appropriates aspects of blockchain: its functioning, appeal and semiotics. At Kunsthal Gent, Michiel and Arnout De Cleene will give an artist talk to celebrate the launch of their latest book.

Capital Compression
Arnout De Cleene
Michiel De Cleene
2023
Roma Publications 446
Designed by Tjobo Kho
ISBN 978-94-6446-039-1
20+12 pages, softcover
€10

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