THE NEW ROMANCE SCAMMER'S INSTRUCTOR

When an artist's residency becomes a research project and the result goes beyond an installation, to a publication that provides historical and economic documentation, can we still call it 'art'? This question seems particularly pertinent in the case of this book, which Valentina Peri realised during a residency at pIAR in Kumasi, Ghana. Peri collected texts used by online dating scammers. These scams were part of a broader scene that caused a loss of 547 million USD (mainly from Western victims) in 2021 alone. The collection, which i...[Read more]