About the artwork
With Hamoney, John Hamon hijacks the ultimate symbolic object of power and value: money. He affixes his famous portrait - the black-and-white passport photo that constitutes his eternal signature - directly onto banknotes, creating a hybrid artifact between financial object and artistic medium. With this action, Hamon creates not just an image, but a critical intervention into the logics of value, image and recognition in both the art world and the economy. The title Hamoney, an ironic contraction of "Hamon" and "money", reinforces this ambiguity between self-promotion, satire of capitalism and questioning the real value of art.
Expert opinion
With Hamoney, John Hamon literally transforms money - the ultimate symbol of power, legitimacy and circulation - into the medium of his personal image, questioning how artists are "worth" anything in the contemporary system.
About the artist
Born in 1982, John Hamon lives and works in Paris. Since 2001, he has been promoting himself as an artist, and has embarked on a unique artistic process involving the posting of his own portrait on the walls of Paris and other cities around the world. This practice questions the notion of promotion and identity in the field of art, associated with the formula: "It's promotion that makes the artist, or the zero degree of art." In this approach, there is a desire to make the artist master of his own destiny. His work questions the boundary between art and self-promotion, reflecting a reflection on visibility and recognition in the art world.
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