Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube

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"This much I'm worth" ( the self-evaluating artwork)- Rachel Ara

This work has been programmed to take into account several deliberate factors including age,gender,sexuality and race using data mining algorithms called "the endorsers" It also calculates social media presence and assesses the number of gallery visitors looking at the piece through the use of web cameras.

Ara's work comments on the excessive importance placed on the market value and questions the parameters that are established to calculate this.

Miroslaw Balka

Balka’s work deals with both personal and collective memories, especially as they relate to his Catholic upbringing and the collective experience of Poland's fractured history. Through this investigation of domestic memories and public catastrophe, Balka explores how subjective traumas are translated into collective histories and vice versa. His materials are simple, everyday objects and things, but also powerfully resonant of ritual, hidden memories and the history of Nazi occupation in Poland.