big boy [massive]
2022
devalued euro notes, sugar, flightcase
60 x 80 x 55 cm
exhibtion
Random Access Memory, graduation show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 2024

A 300-kilogram block made from shredded, institutionally devalued euro banknotes and sugar is compressed under 100 tons of pressure and presented on a flight case. Sugar carries its own history of imperial expansion and silent, destructive consumption, collapsing here into the same mass as a currency stripped of its monetary function. big boy [massive] condenses two historically circulating materials into an immovable body that no individual could lift.





[photo]
Dirk Tacke