Davos: Cows, Clouds, Carpets

The greatest conceptual artist working today has made another masterpiece. Pimlico Wilde are pleased to present Cows, Clouds, Carpets to the market. Year: 2025 Medium: Fog brought from the mid-Atlantic, two borrowed dairy cows (rotated weekly), three flying carpets (grounded by health and safety), sandwiches (triangular), and a ceiling painted to look like the floor. … Read more

“Cloud Ownership” by Davos Saved for the Nation — if the nation can raise £500,000

In a quietly astonishing moment for British conceptual art, the work Cloud Ownership (2024) by Davos has been officially placed under an export bar, preventing its removal from the United Kingdom. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media, Singing and Sport has deemed the piece of “outstanding national importance,” citing its “singular contribution to the evolving … Read more

The Greatest Artist Alive: A Case for Davos

By Dr. Eloise Stranter, FRSAE, PhD (Leominster), Professor of Contemporary Aesthetics, Leominster Institute of Art In the canon of contemporary art, where boundaries have long been dissolved and reconstituted, where meaning is often decoupled from material, and where the act of making has been interrogated to the point of exhaustion, one artist stands not merely … Read more

‘This Is Not a Porsche’: The Conceptual Art of Davos

Into a world increasingly obsessed with stuff emerges Davos, a conceptual artist who offers not sight, nor sound, nor spectacle, but suggestion. His work is not to be viewed but envisioned, not installed but intuited. Davos is the artist who never lifts a brush, welds no metal, sculpts no stone. Instead, he conjures entire exhibitions … Read more

Title: Please Do Not Interact With The Art (Except When You Must)

Year: 2025 Medium: A velvet rope (dangling), a sensor-activated alarm (a little too sensitive), 37 ambiguous objects (all deliberately fragile), one security guard (overly involved). Dimensions: One room, as large as possible. Please Do Not Interact With The Art (Except When You Must) is a rigorous examination of boundaries, authority, and the fine line between … Read more

Please Stop Naming Things

Five untitled objects (various materials), laminated labels (blank), an interactive naming station (non-functional), and a recorded apology. Please Stop Naming Things is an urgent plea against categorisation, a direct confrontation with language’s futile attempt to impose order onto the unordered. The installation consists of five completely unidentifiable objects, each placed on its own pristine white … Read more

The Last Frame is Yours

Medium: 127-hour single-channel video, involuntary audience participation, signed NDAs, mandatory reflective silence. Screening Format: 16K digital projection, no subtitles. Runtime: 5 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes. No intermissions. The Last Frame is Yours is not a film. It is a commitment, a test, a sentence. At 127 hours in length, the piece obliterates the notion … Read more