The body of work Money or Love consists of eight luxury carpets embedded in stained wooden frames. Shimmering fishinghooks (flies) imitating insects serving as lures are woven into carpets. In addition, video screens are embedded, each showing a talking D-Mark (former German Currency until year 2000) banknote.

The personalities depicted on the banknote are animated using deep fake technology, which is often used to spread fake news. As ghosts of worthless currency, they whisper stories about money that involve failure. The silly spectacle of these important figures in German history, adresses the ties between currency and national identity.

The work was shown in a site-specific exhibition in a former betting shop in Berlin. The specific location of the betting shop and it‘s stories of rise and fall, reflect the underlying desires of capitalist systems. Shielded from the world, this heterotopic space is reigned by chance and speculation. Perish or prevail. We may lose all, gain a fortune, or remain trapped in this limbo of desperate hope.

The work was shown in a site-specific exhibition in the former betting shop Fortuna Wetten in Berlin.

carpets sponsered by Van Besouw

funded by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur