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Iain Ball — [Rare Earth Sculptures] Lanthanum (Installation I)
Iain Ball

[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lanthanum (Installation I)

2014

[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lanthanum (Installation I, 2014) is a 1/1 documentation photograph from Iain Ball’s ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive. The work captures the stealth sculpture installed as a decorative object in Obicà Mozzarella Bar, Canary Wharf — a donut-shaped, inflatable-like form with four extended protrusions, rendered in polystyrene, fiberglass and acrylic, covered in gestural children’s scribbles and displayed on a rotating product stand. Operating as affective camouflage within corporate consumer space, Lanthanum entangles the hidden materiality of rare earths (key to hybrid-car batteries) with a speculative reverse swarm-funded entity, The Centre for Youth Consciousness. The documentation itself functions as a live node in the larger sculptural system, continuing to probe youth perception, green-tech extraction, and the co-option of consciousness within late-capitalist ecologies.

Medium
Archival Documentation Photograph, Sculpture Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
Signed
Yes
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
Created by Iain Ball, 2014, as part of the Rare Earth Sculptures cycle within ENERGY⋮PANGEA. Minted as 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum via Manifold (Token ID: 3) in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive contract. Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
Location
Ethereum/Arweave + Original Installation Site At Obicà Mozzarella Bar, Canary Wharf

Notes

This piece might be titled "Lanthanum (Installation I)", created in 2014

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Iain Ball, [Rare Earth Sculptures] Lanthanum (Installation I), 2014

[Rare Earth Sculptures] Lanthanum (Installation I, 2014) is a 1/1 documentation photograph from Iain Ball’s ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive. The work captures the stealth sculpture installed as a decorative object in Obicà Mozzarella Bar, Canary Wharf — a donut-shaped, inflatable-like form with four extended protrusions, rendered in polystyrene, fiberglass and acrylic, covered in gestural children’s scribbles and displayed on a rotating product stand. Operating as affective camouflage within corporate consumer space, Lanthanum entangles the hidden materiality of rare earths (key to hybrid-car batteries) with a speculative reverse swarm-funded entity, The Centre for Youth Consciousness. The documentation itself functions as a live node in the larger sculptural system, continuing to probe youth perception, green-tech extraction, and the co-option of consciousness within late-capitalist ecologies.

Medium
Archival Documentation Photograph, Sculpture Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2014
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Series, Dark, Living Artist, Photography, Political, Conceptual, Muted, Installation, Emerging, Networked Sculpture, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Social Commentary, Urban, Environmentalism, Unique, Digital, British, Architecture, Contemporary

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