Part of the collection “FinTech Art — Rituals of Value”, presented both physically and as a digital installation in the immersive exhibition “500 Years of Women in Art” on Anasaea. The series reimagines ordinary, sentimental objects — dogs, teapots, vases — as private vaults for cash or crypto. Each work is sealed to question how we define safety, ownership and belief in systems built on trust and code.
Trust Fund Dog sits patiently at the crossroads of irony and devotion. A porcelain emblem of loyalty turned into a vault you can’t open without betrayal. Inside its head lies cash — a quiet protest against invisible finance and inherited privilege.
When networks fail, when passwords expire, when trust collapses, this dog remains intact. It guards value through stillness, absurd and sincere at once.
Faith in Fragility is its paradox: what we love most may break the easiest, and what we trust most may already be cracked.
Artist’s Reflection
A companion that outlasts every system — loyal, ridiculous, incorruptible. A vessel of faith in an economy that worships speed and access. You can’t open it without losing it. — Annelies Nuy, 2025
Technical Details
Specification
Details
Title
Trust Fund Dog — Faith in Fragility
Artist
Annelies Nuy
Year
2025
Medium
Porcelain sculpture with hidden cash compartment, sealed with epoxy
Materials
Found ceramic, epoxy, euro banknotes, photographic documentation
Approx. 2.4 kg — heavy enough to hold value, light enough to break
Edition
Unique piece — signed and sealed
Price
€ 3 750
Collection
FinTech Art — Rituals of Value
Exhibited
500 Years of Women in Art, immersive exhibition on Anasaea
Documentation & Authenticity
Includes a signed certificate, photographic record of the sealing ritual, and artist statement. Breaking the object voids both its market and conceptual value.
Trust Fund Dog by Annelies Nuy | FinTech Art — Faith in Fragility
Meta Description:
Porcelain sculpture hiding cash inside a sealed head. A poetic reflection on trust, fragility and value — part of Annelies Nuy’s FinTech Art — Rituals of Value collection, featured in the immersive exhibition 500 Years of Women in Art on Anasaea.
