What is the value of a work of art? How does a particular meaning become perceptible? These questions naturally interact within the framework of history of art, but also in the way we categorise the practices of contemporary art.
In 2012, as part of an exhibition at the Monnaie de Paris, Benjamin Efrati and Noel Sarlaw respond by proposing an intriguing theory, putting in perspective the Significatogenesis of Mario Amehou and the research of the economist Frédéric Lordon.