Year: 2021
 
Size: A4 (8.27 x 11.69 inches / 21 x 29.7 cm)
 
Signature: Signed on the verso
 
Print Type: Offset print on 80 GSM paper 
 
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About the Work:
This is an exceptionally rare unembellished print from CB Hoyo’s Public Service performance, held in Cologne, Germany, in 2021. As part of the original series of 10,000 prints created for the installation, this particular piece was preserved by CB Hoyo for archival purposes, making it one of the few that escaped either destruction or embellishment in the performance’s unique bureaucratic process. Signed on the verso, this print remains in its original state without numbering or embellishment.

In Public Service, CB Hoyo invited participants into a fictional, bureaucratic office where viewers were encouraged to interact with prints that could be collected, authenticated, or even destroyed in an elaborate display of bureaucratic absurdity. The installation’s centerpiece—a precarious paper shredder—symbolized the tension between creation and destruction, mirroring the complexities of assigning value to art. Hoyo’s piece draws on personal experience with bureaucratic systems, presenting a provocative social experiment questioning art’s value and the lengths people go to for its preservation or elimination. This unembellished print, untouched by the performance’s red-tape rituals, is a rare snapshot of Hoyo’s original intent, capturing the artist’s reflection on bureaucracy and art’s impermanence.