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Rabi Towing

In collaboration with Mortal Machine Gallery

WE BUY SOULS! is a company that buys souls. For more than four years, its hotline has collected thousands of voicemails from strangers.

A lifelike sculpture of a tattooed nude figure lying face down across an office desk, in front of a large photo of smiling office workers
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.

The work

After last year’s WBS Call Center, which invited visitors to call in and declare what they would sell their souls for, WE BUY SOULS! returns to Miami Beach with its next iteration: The Appraisal Office.

This year, WBS expands its corporate infrastructure into a fully functioning acquisition office, turning the space into an absurdist corporate-spiritual environment where you can receive a live, in-person appraisal of your soul. Surrounded by artwork, sculpture, corporate documents and the visual language of an established institution, the installation continues to blur the boundaries between art, commerce, faith and bureaucracy.

You will be able to book a time slot for an in-person soul appraisal. Scheduling and participation details will be announced.

About WE BUY SOULS!

WBS | The Entity LLC is a psycho-social experiment framed as a corporate soul acquisition firm. Equal parts installation, performance, marketing experiment and dark satire, it unfolds within a bureaucratic universe where souls are appraised and acquired according to legal, spiritual and economic frameworks.

Signs posted across Los Angeles and beyond offer a hotline to buy what is considered most sacred. For more than four years, the number has collected thousands of voicemails, some cynical, some confessional, some heartbreakingly sincere: a living archive of belief, skepticism, humor, pain, hope, loneliness and greed.

About the artist

Rabi (David Emanuel Mordechai Torres, b. 1984) is a first-generation conceptual and multidisciplinary American artist of Puerto Rican and Polish descent from Los Angeles. His work explores belief, identity, public ritual and the psychological impact of corporate and cultural systems. Growing up in Southern California and Iowa as the child of two immigrants, he found comfort in the many sides of American life; contradiction, escapism, duality, absurdism and sociopolitical philosophy run through his work.

His art began with graffiti and skateboarding, and a drive to make work in public space and to capture his world through video and photography. His practice spans installation, painting, sculpture, large-scale public works and long-running participatory experiments. Through WE BUY SOULS! and earlier collaborative work with the collective CYRCLE, he builds environments that merge the language of branding, bureaucracy and myth.

His work is in public and private collections including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, MOCA Detroit and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and he has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, LA Weekly, KCRW and Hypebeast.

Images

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Glen x Rabi, Miami. Courtesy of the artist.
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A lifelike sculpture of a man in headphones, his head resting on a white desk, in front of a red wall of framed certificates
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A woman’s smiling face beside a giant WBS check made out for one million dollars
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A round mirror on a white wall, with a red telephone receiver hanging below it
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
An office water cooler filled with red liquid, next to a red exit sign
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A giant WBS check propped against a wall
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A tall stack of paper topped with a WBS coffee mug
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
A framed plaque on a white wall
WE BUY SOULS!, Good Mother Gallery, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.

The signs

A red and white WE BUY SOULS! sign with a phone number, on a wooden pole
WE BUY SOULS! sign. Courtesy of the artist.
A WE BUY SOULS! sign on a pole in front of palm trees
WE BUY SOULS! sign. Courtesy of the artist.
A WE BUY SOULS! sign on a pole against a blue sky
WE BUY SOULS! sign. Courtesy of the artist.
A WE BUY SOULS! sign beside a pedestrian crossing signal
WE BUY SOULS! sign. Courtesy of the artist.

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