Million Dirham Hotel
Mirrors Collection

Million Dirham Hotel is the first Mirrors-series artwork minted on Ordinals. Some of the earlier versions have been implemented on physical art cars, for which we have a exclusive licence to launch these cars on the streets of Dubai. This artwork, if it reaches a certain sum, will carry that same IP right, which we can implement on selected surfaces or objects. The work is made via painting, photography and digital collaging over multiple days.

The topic of the artwork itself? Can you imagine what a hotel that charges a million dirhams per night looks like? During the last three years of living in Dubai, VESA has observed the attention, luxury and experience economy grow. The class of people who made rather than lost money during Covid or any other recent disaster live a completely different lifestyle to the majority on the planet. The new luxury is a unique experience, unavailable to most. The world is moving from an ownership to access basis even further. A LV bag don’t impress people much. VESA’s new Mirrors-series explores value, experiences and identity in an innovative way. The leveraged IP of the artwork provides another layer to the work’s value argument. How does the art become something that is our unique identity, rather than a common access commodity?

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VESA is a multi-award winning digital art pioneer with 15 years of experience. He is among the first five fine artists to start making crypto art & NFTs in 2017. He is considered to be a leading artist building the web3 fine art realm, winning the NFT Artist of the Year from AIBC Summit (2023) top Web3 Artists award from L’Officiel Arabia and World NFT artist Award in Korea (both 2022). His last museum show was at the Museum of the Future in Dubai.

In 2013, his digital art project with actress Veena Malik reached around 300M people, with critical acclaim. He is also the founder of VESA Digital LLC, a company in Dubai focusing on holistic physical & digital art experiences. VESA is currently working with “The Great Hack” Netflix documentary star Brittany Kaiser for a web3 art project, and a commission piece for Crypto(dot)com.

His art has been collected by hedge funds, exchanges, CEO's and influencers. Among them are Charles Hoskinson, Charlie Lee, Dr Marwan Al Zarouni, H.E Amna Fikri, Mondoir, Saeed Al Darmaki, Colborn, Tone Vays, Coach K, Willy Woo, and many others.