Sabine Delafon's business cards signed by other artists.
Testament (2011 – today) is an ongoing conceptual project by Sabine Delafon, born from an obsessive act of collecting and reinterpreting one of the most symbolic objects of identity and status—the business card. In Testament, Delafon subverts the business card mythology, transforming each card into a unique 10 x 7 cm artifact signed by another artist, blurring the lines between authorship, exchange, and artistic legacy.
Her practice is driven by a ritualistic fascination with names, signatures, and the silent agreements embedded in the act of giving and receiving. Through this ever-expanding collection, she constructs an alternative archive of artistic networks, where presence is marked not only by creation but primarily by consent. "You simply need to reply positively to this message," she tells her addressee—a phrase that echoes the enigmatic commands of Alice in Wonderland–a bottle labeled "Drink me", where a simple gesture sets an irreversible transformation into motion.
Presented in a tiny limited-edition format each card is printed in its real dimensions, offering an intimate, tactile experience of Delafon's project. The book becomes a conceptual object in itself—an archive of connection and exchange, where the minimalist presentation invites the viewer to reflect on the meaning behind each signature and the persona behind it.
At once a self-portrait and a collective gesture, Testament is a meditation on the fluid nature of identity and the ways artists inscribe themselves into history—not through their own hand, but through the hands of others.
Cards by
AA Bronson,
Adam Christensen,
Adelita Husni Bey,
Adrian Paci,
Agne Raceviciute,
Alberto Garutti,
Alberto Tadiello,
Alek O.,
Alessandra Spranzi,
Alessandro di Giampietro,
Alessandro Pessoli,
Alexander Tillegreen,
Alice Pedroletti,
Alison Knowles,
Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna,
Andrea Kvas,
Andrea Massaioli,
Andrea Renzini,
Andrea Sala,
Angelo Leonardo,
Angelo Plessas,
Angiola Gatti,
Anri Sala,
Antonio Guiotto,
Ashley Hans Scheirl,
Aurel Schmidt,
Austin Lee,
Becky Beasley,
Benni Bosetto,
Camille Henrot,
Canemorto,
Carlo Valsecchi,
Carlos Garaicoa,
Cesare Pietroiusti,
Charlemagne Palestine,
Chiara Fumai,
Christian Frosi,
Christian Rosa,
Claudia Losi,
Cleo Fariselli,
Corrado Sassi,
Cullinan Richards,
Dane Mitchell,
Daniel Minnick,
Daniele Innamorato,
Daniele Puppi,
Danilo Correale,
David Casini,
David Rickard,
Davide Bertocchi,
Davide Savorani,
Diego Marcon,
Dora Garcia,
Elena El Asmar,
Ellie Hunter,
Emilio Isgrò,
Emmanuel Louisgrand,
Enrico Boccioletti,
Erwin Wurm,
Eva & Adele,
Eva & Franco Mattes,
Fabio Paleari,
Farid Rahimi,
Federica Perazzoli,
Federico Floriani,
Federico Pepe,
Fiamma Montezemolo,
Flaminia Veronesi,
Flavio Favelli,
Francesca Grilli,
Francesco Arena,
Francesco Gennari,
Francesco Joao,
Franco B,
Gabriella Hirst,
Gavin Kenyon,
Gedi Siboni,
gelitin (Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, Wolfgang Gantner),
Gianluca Concialdi,
Gianni Carravaggio,
Gianni Politi,
Gio Pastori,
Giorgio Andreotta Calò,
Giovanni
Canedicoda,
Giovanni de Francesco,
Giuseppe Gabellone,
Haim Steinbach,
Helena Hladivova,
Hilario Isola,
Ivan Moudov,
Ivana Spinelli,
Ivano Attori,
Jack Jubb,
Jacopo Benassi,
Jamian Juliano-Villani,
Jasa,
Jeremy Deller,
Jeremy Shaw,
John Armleder,
Joep Van Lieshout,
Jojo Gronostay,
Jonathan Monk,
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys,
Josep Maynou,
Joseph Kosuth,
Josh Smith,
Jota Castro,
Julian-Jakob Keer,
Julius Von Bismark,
Justine Neuberger,
Kamilia Kard,
Karin Gulbran,
Kilian Ruthemann,
Klaus Jurgen Schmidt,
Koo Jeong-A,
Kris Lemsalu,
Laure Prouvost,
Leigh Ledare,
Liliana Moro,
Reynaud-Dewar, Lili,
Liz Magic Laser,
Lorenzo Tamai,
Loris Cecchini,
Luca de Leva,
Luca Pancrazzi,
Luca Vitone,
Luigi Ontani,
Manfredi Beninati,
Manuel Scano,
Mara Fortunatovìc,
Marcello Tarro,
Marinella Senatore,
Mario Dellavedova,
Marlie Mul,
Massimo Grimaldi,
Mathis Altmann,
Matthew Stone,
Mauro Vignando,
McArthur Binion,
Elmgreen & Dragset,
Michael Sailstorfer,
Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Miltos Manetas,
Mimosa Echard,
Namsal Siedlecki,
Nathalie du Pasquier,
Nick Mauss,
Nico Vascellari,
Nicus Lucà,
Olafur Eliasson,
Olivia Erlanger,
ORLAN,
Paloma Varga Weisz,
Paolo Inverni,
Patrizio di Massimo,
Paul Fryer,
Paul McCarthy,
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz,
Peter Friedl,
Petrit Halilaj,
Polys Peslikas,
Rä di Martino,
Radoslav Maglov,
Remo Salvadori,
Renato Leotta,
Riccardo Benassi,
Riccardo Beretta,
RM,
Roberto Coda Zabetta,
Roberto Cuoghi,
Ryan Gander,
Sagg Napoli,
Salvo,
Sanya Kantarovsky,
Satoshi Hirose,
Shannon Cartier Lucy,
Silvia Calderoni,
Simon Dybbroe Møller,
Siri Kollandsrud,
Sophie Thun,
Stanislav Kolibal,
Stefano Arienti,
Stephane Kropf,
Sunyuan & Pengyu,
Sylvie Auvray,
Théo Mercier,
Tobias Zielony,
Trisha Baga,
Uffe Isolotto,
Ugo la Pietra,
Umberto Chiodi,
Uri Aran,
Urs Lüthi,
Valerio Nicolai,
Vedovamazzei,
Will Benedict,
Yuri Ancarani,
Zhanna Kadyrova,
Zineb Sedira,
Zoe Williams.
Born 1975 in Grenoble (France), Sabine Delafon lives and works in Turin (Italy). Her artwork spans from photography to glass installation, from writing painting to performance, passing through the street art. Her main areas of research are identity, love and spirituality into the key of quantity. The intersection of these central themes, their repitition and the course of time is where her work takes shape.
