FAKE.VALUE.TIME
Critical Design, Labour, Currency
Exhibited at: Sujeto a Humanidad, CIESAS, Monterrey, México
Materials: 100 MXN bill, stamp, ink, thrifted frame (50 × 50 cm)
Year: 2015



What is the real value of money, and at what cost is it earned?

In FAKE.VALUE.TIME, I recalculated the value of a 100-peso bill through the lens of labour time, based on Mexico’s 2015 minimum wage (MX$70.10 for an 8-hour workday). By stamping currency with its equivalent in hours worked, the project interrupts our passive relationship to money, exposing the invisible time embedded in economic exchange.

This intervention raises a simple but urgent question:
Is time more valuable than money, and what happens when we measure one with the other?

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