Slasky - The Credibility of the Artifact

Slasky: The Credibility of the Artifact

Stencil su shopping bag

In this work, Slasky consciously situates himself in the path traced by Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, updating their investigation into the object, the image, and value within the contemporary ecosystem.

The Object and the Myth

The work arises from a viral case: the controversial Trash Bag Large Pouch by Balenciaga.

Associated with Demna Gvasalia's subversive aesthetics and placed on the market at a price of $1790, the bag has become the symbol of a luxury that challenges the very concept of waste.

Slasky retraces the social genesis of the object, linking it to the bag appearing on the arm of Chinese actress Zhang Jingyi during the Beijing International Film Festival, where the yellow accessory played a precise dramaturgical role in the presentation of The One.

Slasky's Deconstruction

The artist extracts the image from the incessant flow of the web and reassembles it as a pop relic. Using a limited edition Conad bag in
"Rosa Giro d’Italia" pink, Slasky overlays semantic levels:

The Everyday: The shopping bag, symbol of mass consumption and Italian routine.
The Event: The pink color, tribute to the Maglia Rosa, transforms the plastic into an identity and sports banner.

The Brand: The brutal intervention with stencil and black marker — the BALENCIAGA inscription that dominates the composition — acts as an act of 'brandalism'.

Truth vs Credibility
The work exposes a system in which credibility precedes truth.

Through the contrast between the humility of the support (the plastic bag) and the authority of the overprinted brand, Slasky reminds us that, in the contemporary, we do not believe what we see, but we see what we are ready to believe.

Framed and decontextualized, the bag ceases to be a container and becomes a mirror: an investigation into the fetishization of the signature and into the fluidity of value in the age of technical and social reproducibility.

UNFRAMED

« Art is not about representing new things, but about representing them with novelty »

Slasky is an established Italian artist whose works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally


Institutional highlight: Long Live Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2026. Work selected by the museum
jury from thousands of international submissions for exhibition within the museum's permanent collection
spaces. 15 July — 15 September 2019.

2026

* CI-AO
30 April - 28 May 2026
Via Del Vantaggio 28, Rome
Piazza del Popolo

* FACE2FACE
Laundry Studios · 5 – 9 March 2026

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2025

* Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Tokyo · 12 – 16 September 2025
* Art Parallax
London · 15 – 16 February 2025

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2024

* Waterloo — Solo Exhibition
Limassol · 10 – 20 December 2024
* ARTLAB 2024
Munich · 13 – 22 June 2024
* Must Be — Solo Exhibition
Anemi, Limassol · 3 – 10 February 2024
* Contemporary Venice 2024 — 13th Edition — Solo Exhibition
Venice · 12 – 15 January 2024

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2023

* Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion
Kramfors · 2 – 23 October 2023

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2022

* (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 8 – 10 April 2022

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2021

* MIA Fair 2021
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 7 – 10 October 2021
* Lausanne Art Fair
Lausanne · 30 September – 3 October 2021
* Lille Art Up!
Lille Grand Palais · 24 – 27 June 2021
* Works on Paper
Antibes · 18 March – 21 April 2021

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2020

* StreetArt // UrbanArt
Tozzo Atelier · 8 – 30 October 2020
* Work on Paper
Stockholm · 18 March – 21 April 2020

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2019

* Long Live Rembrandt ★ — Jury Selection
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · 15 July – 15 September 2019
* Wopart Art Fair
Lugano · 19 – 22 September 2019
* Andy Warhol Exhibition — Group Show
· 14 April – 23 September 2019

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2018

* Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition
MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga · 16 March 2018
* Anti Donald Trump
Creative Debuts, London · 12 – 18 July 2018

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2016

* Arte Firenze — Sandro Botticelli International Contemporary Art Prize
Florence · 18 – 20 November 2016
* Twitter Art Exhibition
Trygve Lie Gallery · 31 March – 21 April 2016

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2015

* HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto · 31 May – 30 August 2015