HEIST

2050. New York. The Drone Government controls everything digital. So the city goes analogue. Matriarchal gangs have sprung up with their Drones of Suburbia drones as pets and guards. They steal one thing and one thing only - Old Masters Paintings. They wear the art as armour, as analogue tattoos, as symbols of revolution; all symbolic of an underground world of art theft. Art is no longer framed. It is worn. Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo migrate from marble halls to skin, fabric, motion. Madonnas reappear in the Bronx. Annunciations are delivered by drone. The city becomes a distributed archive. This is not theft. It is logistics. Nothing is destroyed. Nothing is missing. Not stolen. Transferred. Collector’s Note The 1/1 acquisition includes: – the unique short film – a museum-scale framed print of the collector’s chosen still – the film-synced audio track – early sketches, process material, and behind-the-scenes artefacts – invitations to private director’s screenings at international presentations of Drones of Suburbia