Collector
Basel Brief
works · rooms · people · next move
Sfeir-Semler Galerie · Beirut / Hamburg · est. 1985 · Hall 2.1 · Booth M08
What the room actually noticed.
What the room heard about Selma — anonymous, k-anonymized, traceable to the work.
Booth M08 at 11:08 Friday — the Selma wall piece pulling pause time that registers above the mid-tier booth average.
Measurement method
aggregate safeGallery resonance updates from opted-in booth capture. Live counts, pauses, re-approaches, and follow-up queues appear only when represented as measured results.
· LIVE BOOTH SIGNAL · Sfeir-Semler Galerielive
quiet so far. the next save appears here within seconds.
polling every 5s · k-anonymized below intro visibility
Attendee
Gallery
Sponsor
City
Report
Who can act
Choose what each group sees.
Private brief
Shared request
Anonymous pattern
Connection layer
Booth attention becomes a follow-up map.
A saved work links the visitor's question, artist world, gallery note, route, and consent boundary so the gallery can act without exposing private memory.
person
Collector
work
Artist world
place
Hotel lobby
hosted
Coffee stop
follow-up
Gallery note
route
City route
Point of connection
Shared artist world + hosted coffee + city route gives the host a natural reason to introduce people.
Ready now
Gallery gets one output from the same moment the visitor keeps privately.
one save · five next steps
Gallery
Follow-up queue
artist note · process request · consent
Sponsor
Relationship memo
salon themes · next invitation
City
Spillover map
hotel · bakery · museum · route
Object
Living Provenance
guest story · artist world · timestamp
Anonymous pauses
541
≥4s in front of a work
Re-approaches
139
returned within 30 min
Capture share
38%
of pausers photographed
Spikes flagged
2
works above booth average
The white space
"Artlogic shows you the email open after the booth. We show you which work in the booth made the visitor decide to open it."
Existing stack at most galleries: Artlogic · Arternal · ArtBinder · GalleryManager. Each of those tools sees the named inquiry, the email open, the invoice. None of them see which work moved a stranger.
Live ingest · this dashboard
Captures today
0
Distinct visitors
0
Status
Loading
k-anonymity floor: counts below 10 distinct visitors render as "below floor" rather than the raw number. Modeled resonance remains labeled until live ingest clears the floor.
Booth — per-work resonance
Which work moved the room.
Pause score, re-approach, capture share, top note themes. Anonymous, k-anonymized, no PII.
Selma Boukharès · 2025
Dye Garden Study III
Madder root + indigo on raw linen, 200 × 160 cm
Price band
CHF 32k – 38k
Pauses
168
Avg pause
9.6s
Re-approaches
47
Capture share
48%
Top note themes (Gemini-extracted from anonymous captures)
natural dyeTangier studio practiceBouchra Khalili reference
Top pause + top capture-share at the booth. 47 visitors came back within 30 minutes — the wall text and dye-garden material story is working.
Selma Boukharès · 2025
Field Notes (Tangier–Basel) · large
Mixed media on Arches paper, 110 × 150 cm
Price band
CHF 22k – 28k
Pauses
124
Avg pause
7.2s
Re-approaches
24
Capture share
36%
Top note themes (Gemini-extracted from anonymous captures)
diasporic mappingtravel notespaper works
Inès Boukhares · 2025
Hamra (large)
Etched glass, CRT source, multi-channel projection
Price band
CHF 64k – 78k
Pauses
91
Avg pause
14.2s
Re-approaches
38
Capture share
55%
Top note themes (Gemini-extracted from anonymous captures)
video installationglass / lightdiaspora
Longest average pause in the entire fair so far at 14.2s. 38 returns. Price band is suppressing capture — most pausers don't photograph but they linger.
Bouchra Khalili · 2017
Bouchra Khalili · The Tempest Society (related work)
Single-channel video, 60 min
Price band
POR (estate edition)
Pauses
56
Avg pause
6.8s
Re-approaches
14
Capture share
21%
Top note themes (Gemini-extracted from anonymous captures)
post-colonial MediterraneanKhalili referenceSelma's reading list
Selma Boukharès · 2024
Studio fragment · earth pigment
Earth pigment on linen, 70 × 50 cm
Price band
CHF 9k – 12k
Pauses
102
Avg pause
5.4s
Re-approaches
16
Capture share
30%
Top note themes (Gemini-extracted from anonymous captures)
entry-collectorintimate scalefirst-Selma
Top themes across the booth
What the room is thinking about.
Aggregated across 541 anonymous captures. These are the conversations to walk into on Saturday morning.
#1
Tangier dye-garden practice
#2
diasporic video
#3
Khalili reference
#4
paper works
#5
MENA institutional acquisition track
Artist interest owner queue
Requests from artist worlds become triage, not inbox fog.
0 receipt-backed
This queue reads `artist_world_interest` intent receipts from the artist pages. It keeps private story saves anonymous, and only exposes contact when a visitor explicitly consents to gallery follow-up.
No live owner-queue receipts yet
Once visitors use the artist-world actions, matching gallery-note and studio/private-viewing requests appear here. The seeded queue below remains the demo fallback for anonymous booth resonance.
Source: live
Visual archive
Gallery follow-up should feel like a packet of recoverable moments, not another CRM table.
First Save
preview day · 11:42
privateopt-inguest
Basel Brief
5 moments · 3 follow-ups
privateopt-inguest
Living Provenance
object story · guest layer
privateopt-inguest
Consented follow-up queue
The visitors who saved your work and chose to be reachable.
Subset of the anonymous pool. Visitor opt-in only. Never their real name — even here — until the visitor accepts the gallery's first message.
Visitor #4011
Dye Garden Study III
Institutional · MENA acquisitions track
Overlap: Save pattern overlaps 78% with three known MENA collection institutions (Sharjah, Mathaf, Kamel Lazaar Foundation).
Open threadVisitor #4203
Hamra (large)
Critic-track signal · longform publication
Overlap: Captures cluster around process + reading list, not price. Likely advance research for an editorial profile.
Open threadVisitor #4519
Field Notes (Tangier–Basel) · large
Returning collector · second Sfeir-Semler save
Overlap: Saved a Walid Raad work at Sfeir-Semler in 2024. Save pattern overlaps with a known Beirut diaspora collection.
Open thread| Pseudonym | Signal | Overlap | Work | Captured | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor #4011 | Institutional · MENA acquisitions track | Save pattern overlaps 78% with three known MENA collection institutions (Sharjah, Mathaf, Kamel Lazaar Foundation). | Dye Garden Study III | Fri 11:08 | Open thread |
| Visitor #4203 | Critic-track signal · longform publication | Captures cluster around process + reading list, not price. Likely advance research for an editorial profile. | Hamra (large) | Fri 14:22 | Open thread |
| Visitor #4519 | Returning collector · second Sfeir-Semler save | Saved a Walid Raad work at Sfeir-Semler in 2024. Save pattern overlaps with a known Beirut diaspora collection. | Field Notes (Tangier–Basel) · large | Sat 10:45 | Open thread |
Methodology
Aggregate counts: k≥50 floor. Consented follow-up queue: k≥10 floor and visitor opt-in only. Pause measured at ≥4s in front of the work. Re-approach measured at return within 30 minutes. No PII captured or rendered.
Source for the wedge claim: Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2024 (gallery digital readiness — 83% pen-and-paper booth notes, 60% business cards, 31% same-day CRM); ArtTactic Gallery CRM Survey 2024 (95% of booth visitors leave anonymous).