Double Exposure – Marie Antoinette #1, 2022
NFT
| ADDRESS: | 0x3259d15b17a3f8c7592403e199336c104a4a8be59e21349d4e657aecb50f6102 |
| MINTED: | PALM Network |
| RESOLUTION: | 2820 × 4000 px |
| FORMAT: | Mp4 |
| BYTES: | 15,259,703 |
| EDITION: | Unique |
Physical Asset
| MATERIAL: | C-print on photographic glossy paper |
| SIZE: | 47 3/16 x 35 7/16 in. (120 x 90 cm) |
| MARKINGS: | Stamped “Rewind Collective” |
| EDITION: | This work is unique. |
SOLD
Double Exposure – Marie Antoinette #1, 2022
“Marie Antoinette #1” by Rewind Collective is part of Rewind’s Double Exposure series of NFTs honouring misrepresented women. ‘Double Exposure’ is a technical term, applying to an effect that can be accidental or deliberate, a mistake or carefully constructed.
Existing as a double, or diptych, the work depicts the last queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne, who became increasingly unpopular among the people. She was accused by the French libelles of being profligate, promiscuous, harboring sympathies for France’s perceived enemies—particularly her native Austria—and her children of being illegitimate. Her reputation was further damaged with the false accusations of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. She was blamed for her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms of French Economist and statesman, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker during the revolution, which led to her being known as Madame Déficit.
Capturing Antoinette’s mutability through this single moment and iteration, the work portrays our tendancy to reconceptualise her with compassion. Rewind Collective’s mission to create original digital pieces that shines a light on the forgotten revolutionaries who defied society’s expectations and made an indelible impact on the course of history is further enhanced through this piece.
Rewind Collective
Anonymous digital feminist arts collective aimed at addressing the gender and minority imbalances throughout the art world.
They use their practice as a means of honoring overlooked communities who were forgotten amid the patriarchal gaze, misogyny and segregation; highlighting women and minorities through their work. They create original digital work, digital editions, & works in response to existing physical artworks.
In May 2021, Rewind teamed up with gallerist, collector and philanthropist, Amar Singh to create NFTs for Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Day inspired by five paintings by pioneering women of Abstract Expressionism – Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Yvonne Thomas, and Lynne Mapp Drexler. It generated over $1.28m with a solo Rewind work selling for $150,000.
In June 2021 a digital artwork by Rewind sold at Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session for $201,600. Rewind also became the first NFT artists to partner with an international beauty brand Givenchy Beauty. Rewind’s editions sold out in 2 seconds and generated $128,000 for a charity supporting LGBT youths.
Most recently, Rewind participated in Artnet’s first NFT auction, ArtNFT: Beginnings that was centered around the historical trajectory of early computer art, media art, video art and digital art over the past six decades.
Rewind Collective are also one of the first digital artists to have NFT’s collected by museums with their works in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Iziko South African National Gallery and Foundation Medianoche0 in Spain.
Brendan Dawes 
Dr Ahmed Elgammal