Dutch Golden Age's Tulipmania, the birth of modern capitalism and 1st recorded speculative bubble was an alluring collision of desire and the dream of immense wealth. In this group exhibition, I am showing the first of a new series, "Speculative Perspectives," which delve's into the rhyming histories of economic excess and collapse that have reverberated through centuries, meditating on deep surreal patterns about human nature.

 The original watercolors used by 17th-century speculators have been re-imagined through 3D printing, a tech considered to be a pillar of the 4th Industrial Real against the backdrop of the Financial Times stock listings. These digital tulips are more than echoes of economic history, they reflect on a philosophical notion of a digital Eden—a promised Utopian datascape where nature and artifice converge to fulfill humanity's yearning for paradise, a vision transformed by algorithms and data, yet still haunted by the existential shadow of mortality filled with questions about what it means to be human.