MATERIAL WORLD
Mid-last year, when Western Sydney-based digital artist Serwah Attafuah’s phone flashed with an Instagram message from Paris Hilton, she naturally assumed it was a joke. Or from a fake account. “I had to google, did Paris Hilton get hacked?” she says laughing. In fact Hilton – teen icon of the 2000s and quasi-leader of the celebrity NFT enthusiast vanguard in the 2020s – wanted to commission one of Attafuah’s sprawling, Afro-futurist digital artworks. “She was basically just like, ‘I love female empowerment … And I’d love you to make a piece based off of that concept,’” says Attafuah.
And so, her piece was born. In it, a glowing Black woman deity, draped in
