Are we looking at the paintings? Or just the frames?

By setting up a fake art exhibition, this project aimed to challenge the human perception on art.

A fake art exhibition was held during 21/4/2019 – 23/4/2019. In this project, 6 landscape paintings were randomly selected from a variety of discarded and unwanted paintings from an art school. A new background story for the paintings was composed.

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These paintings were claimed to be found in Yorkshire, Britain and they were supposedly painted in the 18th century. Visitors were ignorant about the truth. As both an artist and a curator, it was interesting to see to what extend I was able to increase the value of these paintings.