FAKE.VALUE.TIME
2015. Hundred pesos bill (100.00 MXN), stamp, ink. 50 x 50 cm.
Exhibited at: Sujeto a Humanidad, CIESAS, Monterrey, México
2015. Hundred pesos bill (100.00 MXN), stamp, ink. 50 x 50 cm.
Exhibited at: Sujeto a Humanidad, CIESAS, Monterrey, México
Materializing the hours behind a hundred-peso bill, to question the value we've given both time and money.
Money, a paper document with an intangible value that conditions our lives and the social structure, the accumulation of yearnings, of wanting more, of needing more, the passion for money. "The language of money is a language that presents a world which has no limit: a world of unlimited desire." (Badiou, Alain)
Time, measured into hours and workdays, imposed over something that in nature has no real limit or price.
In this project I based the value of money through the minimum wage and time worked in Mexico ($70.10 mxn per 8 hours), and stamped that equivalence, in hours, onto the bill itself.
Materializing time on money, and money on time. Making visible an exchange we live inside of but rarely see.
Is it time or money more valuable to us? Can new forms of socioeconomic movements be created, capable of overthrowing the bewitchment of money?