Raafat Majzoub

This project invites unusual stakeholders to enter the art market, disrupts its gallery-centrism and creates oblique entry points to regional social research. For edition one, Majzoub will undertake commissions to create three artworks for three patrons, but on the condition that the works will be co-owned by “The Khan” as part of its private collection. “The Khan” will not profit materially if one of the patrons decides to sell a commissioned work, but it will retain its right to remain a co-owner with the purchaser. In this fashion, it will build up a co-owned institutional collection reflective of intimate contemporary contexts and embracing future sharing economies. Majzoub will also create a research-based exhibition not to display these artworks but rather to showcase the process itself.