Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 100cm

Executed live from a terrace overlooking the Circuit de Monaco during the 2025 Grand Prix, Live Merchandise is a durational painting performance that examines the relationship between event, memory, and object.

The work takes as its premise the contemporary compulsion to materialise experience — the souvenir as a hedge against impermanence, and the role consumer culture plays in constructing how we archive our own lives. The painting is produced in the presence of the spectacle it documents, making the artist's body and gesture inseparable from the event itself.

The visual language of the canvas is informed by Futurism, the first avant-garde movement to treat velocity as a subject in its own right. The study of dynamics, decomposed form, and the simultaneity of motion — central to the work of Balla, Severini, and Russolo — serve here as a formal framework through which the energy of the race is translated into paint.

Alongside the canvas, a hand-painted giant postcard functions as a second object: vernacular in format, singular in execution, and equally imbricated in the performance's central inquiry into memory, collectibility, and the souvenir.