Abandon Art is a curatorial project initiated by OMMFA in 2021. It examines objects that no one set out to make—the accidental compositions of the street. A broken umbrella, or a sofa left by the kerb, are viewed not as refuse, but as materials holding a fleeting, deliberate form that OMMFA seeks to catalog and elevate.
The project gathers documentation of these discarded works from a global network of distributed observers. OMMFA focus on the act of re-making—how an individual intervention, through minimal adjustment or heavy edit, transforms a worthless object into a record worth keeping. We treat this act of noticing not as casual participation, but as a discipline in its own right.
From this compiled material, OMMFA selectively exhibits works that exemplify this reversal of value. The project asserts that an object deemed worthless by one hand becomes, under the institutional gaze, a cultural artefact. None would have been recognised as art had it remained where it was found; here, they are presented as part of OMMFA's ongoing investigation into the overlooked.