{"FileName":"Faz_Hugo_048","Thumbnail":"-","SequenceOrder":"48","Subnarrative":"Sentence","TWTNumber":"051","ArtistName":"Hugo Faz","CuratorsChoice":"Yes","name":"I KNEW YOU EXISTED","description":"A sentence on a building’s facade overlooks a photoshoot on a high line in São Paulo, march 2022.\n\"THE WORLD TODAY by Hugo Faz. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, whose embrace of art and science-fiction still generates instigating questions about human evolution, was the starting point of inspiration for Hugo Faz's vision of The World Today.\n \nIf the black monolith once transformed our ancestors, making them intelligent but perhaps also competitive or aggressive, it is invited back after many ages to be a guiding thread for witnessing contemporary society and to help with asking unsettling questions.\n \nDoes the current complexity of human relations, urban development and dynamics actually make for better living? What does the advent of crypto entail for the average person? Is a society that's become used to isolation and virtuality still capable of empathy? Is there a point to our civilization? What makes the essence of the human experience? In our age, in which post-truth thrives and where “all that is solid melts into air”, Truth becomes a non-fungible token, molded to what the minter wants it to be. Faced with such an 'imbroglio', what is the reigning paradigm?\n \nInnocuous or transformative, discreet or disturbing, starring or observing, the black monolith experiences the present and its inhabitants, naming visions, telling truths or making guesses about the world today. What are yours?\"","Continent":"Central \u0026 South America","Country":"Brazil","CityOrUrbanArea":"São Paulo","Scene":"Exterior","StyleI":"Portrait","StyleII":"Black and white ","Camera":"Canon","SpecialTrait":["Portuguese"],"Character":["Fausto"],"Animal":"Dog","Flora":"Tulip","Object":"Vintage object","Transport":"Van","Colors":"Pink","Time":"Wildcard","Day":"Sunday","Weather":"Winter","Pairings":"Film","Technique":"Analog Contact Sheet Scan","TWTCuration":["Migration"],"Medium":"Non-Fungible Token","Year":"2022","Edition":"1 of 1","Collection":"The World Today","License":"© Hugo Faz","Copyright":"© Hugo Faz 2022 All Rights Reserved","TheWorldTodayCollection":"138 photographers from around the world taking a visual time stamp of the 21st century. Cities, towns, farms, landscapes, communities, people and events that will tell the story of our world for centuries to come. An ode to the 20th century project, The Family of man, by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA exhibition, The World Today uses the technology of NFTs to create a permanent record through the blockchain of our world. \nAll photographers would be assigned to generate new work that will first be seen as NFT through a custom smart contract.\n\nWith this great project we envision a new photography scene that will be marked by this giant community effort to benefit hundreds of established and emerging artists from around the world.","image":"https://arweave.net/-dIdXTxA73BAm3F40jeC-ovPu3aqvlLoqQtna-AOrdU/048.jpeg","attributes":[{"trait_type":"Subnarrative","value":"Sentence"},{"trait_type":"artist","value":"Hugo Faz"},{"trait_type":"continent","value":"Central \u0026 South America"},{"trait_type":"country","value":"Brazil"},{"trait_type":"area","value":"São Paulo"},{"trait_type":"scene","value":"Exterior"},{"trait_type":"style","value":"Portrait"},{"trait_type":"style","value":"Black and white "},{"trait_type":"Camera","value":"Canon"},{"trait_type":"Special Trait","value":"Portuguese"},{"trait_type":"Medium","value":"Non-Fungible Token"},{"trait_type":"Year","value":"2022"},{"trait_type":"Edition","value":"1 of 1"},{"trait_type":"Collection","value":"The World Today"},{"trait_type":"License","value":"© Hugo Faz"},{"trait_type":"Copyright","value":"© Hugo Faz 2022 All Rights Reserved"}]}