Golden Boots by Sabato Visconti
11 unique GIF portraits of footballers • 69 editions • Blind Mint • 0.02 ETH
Golden Boots is a glitchy tribute to some of the football players that marked the 2026 World Cup. Each athlete portrait was created using the player and team edit system in the Nintendo 64 game, FIFA: Road to the World Cup 98. Digital ROMs of this game were meticulously glitched to create 11 unique animated GIF portraits that centers the elite footballer as the heroic avatar, the gamified subject, and the human individual enmeshed in a corrupted system.
Rarity Breakdown
Lionel Messi — 1 edition (1.4%)
Lamine Yamal — 2 editions (2.9%)
Kylian Mbappé — 3 editions (4.3%)
Harry Kane — 4 editions (5.8%)
Vozinha — 5 editions (7.2%)
Erling Haaland — 7 editions (10.1%)
Vinicius Junior — 8 editions (11.6%)
Julián Álvarez — 9 editions (13.0%)
Rodri — 9 editions (13.0%)
Neymar Jr. — 10 editions (14.5%)
Cristiano Ronaldo — 11 editions (15.9%)
Sabato Visconti is a Brazilian-born multimedia artist based in Western Massachusetts. Their work interrogates contemporary and historical digital imaging practices by engaging with the underlying materialities of media production and online distribution. From pixels to glitches, video game errors to AI hallucinations, these visual liminalities serve as foundations for world-building and story-telling. As part of a Brazilian Diaspora, Sabato draws on cultural histories, natural ecologies, and politics to portray subjects and their environments, often entangled in systems designed to fail or malfunction.
