Vivre les enchères

What goes on at an auction? How can one item sell for up to eighteen times its estimated price whilst others fail to attract any bidders? Caught between excitement and disappointment, desire and reason, those involved in ‘Art and Collectables’ auctions find themselves on a stage that is as thrilling as it is gruelling. 

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Pia Torregrossa is an associate researcher at the Centre for Cultural Anthropology (Canthel) at Paris Cité University. At the intersection of economic anthropology, heritage, art and memory, her research focuses on the practices of valuation, circulation and consumption of goods.