The Canadian-born singer, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, opened her online art show on Thursday, less than a month after giving birth to her first child, X Æ A-12 X Æ A-Xii Musk.
The exhibition is presented by the Gallery Platform Los Angeles and Maccarone Los Angeles, and it features various “rarities” from her career, including album art, a poem about artificial intelligence and some of Grimes paintings.
The musician told Bloomberg on Thursday that she was putting her soul up for $10 million.
In the grand tradition of law art, she said she worked with her legal team to put a price on her soul and sell it as art. The “piece” will live alongside other works for an exhibit called “Selling Out” at Maccarone Los Angeles through August 31.)
I don’t want to be a hand-wringing fun-crusher, but I gotta ask, you know, is that wise? The soul is kind of all a person has these days when the world is going to Hades in a Model X.
Though, I suppose she does have money thanks to her work as a performer. Maybe she doesn’t need her soul anymore. She did tell Bloomberg the price was so high she hoped no one would buy it.
And yet: “With the current state of the world, do you want to put something up for $10 million?” she mused. So? She left it up to the invisible hand. She said she’ll take the “best offer.” So I guess this is about capitalism. Or maybe it’s a thought-provoking exercise. It provokes thoughts like, just because you can, should you? Or, is right now a good time?
