In 2015, I convinced the Intellectual Property Office of Barcelona to accept the registration of my body, so that it would be publicly cataloged as an organic, evolving, and exempt sculpture. Months later, the registrar sent me a lengthy letter explaining why the human genome is not registrable.

This gesture explores the recognition of authorship over my body, my image, and my identity, while assigning rights and duties different from those of any other human body. At the same time, through this action I investigate the requirements demanded by the bureaucratic system to access the identification regime of a work of art.