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bestfriendsgifts.shop is conceived as an online essay disguised as an obscure e-commerce website. It features a selection of fictional items intended as gifts for diplomats, ambassadors, and other state figures. The project diverts the codes of contemporary diplomacy, where gestures of goodwill are continuously staged for media circulation, into an exuberant, grotesque, and childlike interface. Combining photomontage with critical texts informed by historical examples, it unsettles the polished aesthetics of diplomatic exchange. The speculative products presented online embody key principles of diplomatic gifting, each paired with a short text examining the practice.
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