The issue of museum budgeting – or lack thereof – is at the heart of this work. By asking the audience to help fund the work, the artist shed light on this issue through a critical project concerning the gap between an artwork's economic and symbolic value and the artist's creative and financial freedom. The dollhouse version of the museum building (Tel Aviv Museum of Art) invites the viewer to insert a coin and activate a tiny conveyor belt that carries the viewer's cellphone inside. Revealed inside is a clay model of the exhibition curator's office – a miniscule, accurate model in the Delft style that reflects a behind-the-scenes museum mechanism. "Artists of the World Unite" is Inbal Hoffman's call for establishing an artists' coalition to confront art institutions, in a nod to Karl Marx's slogan for a workers' union to confront the capitalist regime. Her miniature model, which continues Hoffman's ongoing preoccupation with scale, emphasizes the connection between labor and value: every tiny detail bears witness to the work invested in it, embodying Marx's theory of the value of labor power. The duo stands at the entrance in the form of tiny worker dolls that humorously and critically illustrate their identities as cultural workers.
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