Pierce Day
(b. 1999, Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington;
lives and works in Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Pierce is an artist and writer whose work explores value as both a system and a fiction: how technologies of exchange, language, and governance shape human and non-human futures. Trained in law and philosophy, his practice moves between research, writing, digital media, and painting.
His first book, A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man (2024), is a book only by accident of paper and binding. A breakthrough formic experiment of the post-digital age, it holds its subject and undoes it. Here what speaks is the present, pressed to breaking: the nearness of touch and the distance of the Sublime. Across three hours and without measure, space is folded, reader suspended, the gaze turning back, again and again and again. It presents a man devoured, devouring: what wounds, binds; what consoles, consumes. Tenderness, cruelty, promise, failure; this is apparition and echo, tethered and unbound.
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is available exclusively through Metalabel.