Certificate

a document attesting to ownership of an item or the fulfillment of legal requirements

This section includes Moudov’s projects that involve producing certificates. Certificates concern not only the issue of the value of a work of art, but also the questionof the workings of a significant segment of the art system—the art market and its related commercial activities. Moudov’s objective with the certificates is to outfox the market system, to reverse its current laws and postulates by “interfering” in the standard artist-gallerist and gallerist-buyer relationships. By recreating real-life situations and in a way radicalizing the problematic or absurd laws of the art market, Moudov shifts the boundaries of convention and creates new conditions of evaluation and valorization, in the process taking on the roles of gallerist, collector, and even arbiter, i.e. a valuer of works of art.