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Tags mark a commodity’s identity, authenticity, and quality as suggested by economic, cultural and social systems for evaluating an object’s worth. Intrigued by the tenuous space that notions of value fluctuate within, Retain Tag for Reference highlights an object fraught with conflicting measurements between use value and exchange value. What is the TY beanie baby story today? How did these coveted, plush toys go from fast and hard bidding wars to the bottom of bargain bins? This work illustrates the existence of objects that, like many consumer trends, are obsessively collected to be fatally left behind. |