What comes first, the material or the idea?

Do we own art with our souls or with our hands and bank accounts?

“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”

Barbara Kruger

“The techniques of the internet have become a major way of liberating humans from old values and systems…”

Ai Weiwei