MANIFESTO OF THE TRANSACTION ART UNIVERSE

We are the children of war. 

War is money, and money has no face.

It’s so simple as Transaction,

We are the children of the Transaction.

We are the children with Hidden Faces — {$M}

Transaction Art is the invisible architecture of human exchange—a living system where every interaction, from love to violence, leaves an evidentiary trace. It is both mirror and black mirror, reflecting the brutal poetry of our collective transactions.

PRINCIPLES OF TRANSACTION

  1. We Are All Hidden Faces
    • Leni Smoragdova {$M} is an individual and a collective, a singular artist and a chorus of anonymous voices.
    • Anonymity is not erasure—it is power.
  2. Art as Forensic Evidence
    • Each artwork bears an accounting code, mutating as it moves through the world.
    • The Transaction Art alphabet: currency symbols spoken as Hebrew, a language of exile and resilience.
  3. The Heroes of This Universe
    • Hybrid beasts and human holograms archive humanity’s transactions.
    • They are observers, extras—the silent witnesses to our wars, our epidemics, our plastic surgeries.
  4. The Egg and the Beast
    • A whole egg: a holographic face balancing life and death. 
    • A split egg: the birth of a beast. This is the equation of transformation.
    • Why Chase a Million?
      • The market is a distraction. The real currency is the Transaction Art Universe itself.

      • ACTIONS & ARTIFACTS

      • Figures Collection: Different Versions: The body as a site of hidden transactions.
      • Inglourious Basterds: Warm Stops: A five-year infiltration of public space, where city residents become co-authors.
      • Transaction’s Eggs: Fragile vessels of metamorphosis.

      THE QUESTION

      With whom will you transact? What will you exchange—your face, your silence, your complicity?

      The Transaction Art Universe is not a metaphor. It is the operating system.

      — Leni Smoragdova {$M}