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· The Teapot (2017)

· Uncertain Works (2018/2015)

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For this piece, the artist asked a favour from a friend that was going to embark on a journey of several months around the world, mostly through Russia and China. The favour was to carry with her the only object he had inherited from his grandmother: a worthless porcelain teapot.

The tea being a fragile and somewhat cumbersome object for a luggage that needed to be as light as possible implied a sacrifice on the part of the traveller. And there was a second part to the request: throughout the whole duration of the trip, she should take one, and only one, photo of the tea in a nondescript, meaningless place.

The teapot ended up in pieces and the traveller had some local artisans make a copy of the pot. This replica did make it back to Spain and was later shown in Dead At Home II, where Enrique Marty pledged that he would sell the teapot filled with his own blood for an amount similar to that of the price of the most expensive work of the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei.