Rayfish Footwear

Floris Kaayk

Exhibition Name

Rayfish Footwear

Floris Kaayk

Exhibition Name

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A fictional company and online store that offered people the opportunity to “grow” their own personalized sneakers using genetically modified stingray leather. A carefully crafted story was spread across various media platforms, where it proved convincing enough to a loyal group of followers who were ultimately disappointed when the truth was revealed..

Other projects
An anonymous and unsuspecting author receives an anonymous online request from the artist himself to write a “scientific paper” titled “The Identity of the Contemporary Artist on the Example of Oskar Dawicki’s Work” (original title: “Tożsamość współczesnego artysty na przykładzie learn more
An anonymous and unsuspecting author receives an anonymous online request from the artist himself to write a “scientific paper” titled “The Identity of the Contemporary Artist on the Example of Oskar Dawicki’s Work” (original title: “Tożsamość współczesnego artysty na przykładzie twórczości Oskara Dawickiego”). The author’s name, Jan Wallenrod, appears on the title page. An extensive learn more

Praca magisterska / Master’s Thesis

Oskar Dawicki
The United We Stand project imagines a non-existent Hollywood-style European blockbuster film, marketed as “a brilliant mix of espionage and sci-fi political stereotypes in which Europe, not the USA, saves the world from impending doom.” Through posters, a fabricated website, learn more
The United We Stand project imagines a non-existent Hollywood-style European blockbuster film, marketed as “a brilliant mix of espionage and sci-fi political stereotypes in which Europe, not the USA, saves the world from impending doom.” Through posters, a fabricated website, and a fictional backstory, the project presented a fictional movie to audiences worldwide. The promotional learn more

United We Stand (2005)

Eva & Franco Mattes
Project Europe will collapse under the weight of its contradictions, according to Thomas Bellinck’s House of European History in Exile. His fake museum of the future narrates the history of the European Union’s failure, examining the missteps from the early learn more
Project Europe will collapse under the weight of its contradictions, according to Thomas Bellinck’s House of European History in Exile. His fake museum of the future narrates the history of the European Union’s failure, examining the missteps from the early 21st century to the year 2063. The museum resembles a collection of bureaucratic artifacts: maps, learn more

House of European History in Exile, 2013

Thomas Bellinck