How to win an art prize 
(Studio Visit or the making of Smell my Hand, Chief)This video accompanies Tavor’s exhibition Studio Visit at Amore. It documents the production of a large-scale latex bandana work later presented in the Werkschau des Kantons Zürich at Kunstmuseum Winterthur.

The film opens with a deadpan manual titled How to Win an Art Prize, listing seven rules — formalism, size-ism, referentialism, critique-ism, self-tokenism, material fetishism, and “always make a video.” This ironic frame sets up a close observation of the slow, repetitive, and physically demanding process of casting, drying, and assembling latex. Gestures, surfaces, waiting times, and routines foreground labor, duration, and the body’s negotiation with material.

The exhibition space operates simultaneously as real studio and staged situation: Tavor is working, but also visibly “performing” the role of the artist at work. The film reflects on artistic work, visibility, and institutional value systems, and ends with the exhibition’s closing Halloween party, “Art After Death: Zombie Collectors and Their Haunted Artworks,”  where production, display, and afterlife collide.

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