
Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (1/10 edition)
2024
Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (2025) is a 1/10 edition from Iain Ball’s Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series. The work takes the artist’s landmark 2009 digital collages — originally transparent PNGs that circulated freely in post-internet image cultures — and subjects them to AI-mediated mutation, reimagining them as large-scale physical sculptures documented in pristine white gallery spaces. This recursive gesture collapses the aura of gallery documentation back into a new digital asset, creating a charged feedback loop where image, object, and documentation continually transmute, probing the unstable boundaries between virtual and physical in contemporary art.
- Medium
- AI-mediated Digital Collage, NFT (Ethereum)
- Edition
- 1 of 10
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball, 2025, as part of the Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series (a reworking of the 2009 Symptoms ♨ project). Minted as 1 of 10 ERC-721 edition on Ethereum via Manifold (ID: 4175620336). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
- Location
- Ethereum/Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7", created in 2024
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Luc Tuymans
Belgian · b. 1958

Tuymans paints solitary figures and interior scenes with muted, desaturated palettes that generate quiet psychological unease, closely mirroring Ball's intimate figurative approach and unsettling domestic tension.

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish · b. 1864

Hammershøi's hushed interior scenes featuring solitary figures, restrained earthy tones, and a melancholic stillness directly parallel Ball's themes of solitude, domesticity, and Northern European realist sensibility.

Peter Doig
British · b. 1959

Doig shares Ball's richly layered paint surfaces, warm yet psychologically charged atmosphere, and contemporary figurative approach rooted in Northern European painterly traditions while maintaining an expressive personal mark.
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