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NFT Paris

Metaversal x Lumen Prize

Paris, France

  • A visitor in the dark watches a stereoscopic video of an ornate room on a screen, a digital work by Federico Clapis shown at NFT Paris
  • Screen showing a work by Federico Clapis: glowing translucent figures rise from a sleeper on a bed, watched by a visitor at The Future of Art, NFT Paris
  • Print by Federico Clapis of a statue wearing a VR headset on a wooden easel, beside a machine with bottles and a monitor, at The Future of Art in Paris
  • Everlasting Memory by Federico Clapis on an easel: a white statue of a woman in a VR headset in a ruined interior, shown during NFT Paris
  • Poster of The Future of Art, presented by Metaversal and Lumen Art Projects during NFT Paris, the exhibition featuring Federico Clapis

During NFT Paris, the Web3 and digital art gathering in the French capital, Metaversal and Lumen Art Projects presented "The Future of Art", an invitation-only exhibition of digital art accompanied by panel discussions on where the medium is heading, music and interactive installations. Lumen Art Projects is the British organisation behind the Lumen Prize, the international award for art made with technology. Part of the show was curated by the Barcelona gallery Lezar House together with l'Antichambre, a Parisian artistic project and collectors' club.

Federico Clapis was among the artists on view. The photographs show his work in a bright gallery space with pale stone floors: on a wooden easel stands a square print of a white female statue wearing a VR headset, her hands cupped around an invisible object, set in a decaying, ivy-covered interior; the label beside it reads "Everlasting Memory". In a darkened area, screens showed his animated pieces, among them a sleeping figure on a bed from which translucent, glowing bodies rise in sequence, and a stereoscopic view of an ornate room that recalls a virtual reality headset's display. Visitors watched the works at close range.

The presentation reflects the direction of Clapis' work after the move to crypto art: classical sculptural language, rendered digitally, used to question how technology shapes memory, presence and the body. Showing it in Paris, in a programme tied to the Lumen Prize and to the city's main NFT gathering, placed his work within the European community of collectors and institutions devoted to digital art.

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