Wertschöpfungspapier [lunar cycle]
2024
UV print on handmade paper from devalued euro banknotes, modified spreader bar, nipple clamps, carabiner, eyebolt, plaster
380 x 100 x 10 cm
exhibition
One Step Beyond, groupshow, ERES Foundation, Munich, 2024

Eight sheets of handmade paper produced from devalued banknotes bear successive lunar phases printed in ultraviolet ink and hang from an extended, modified spreader bar. Bound rather than freely orbiting, the lunar cycle appears as a system held under tension.
Long before standardized time and industrial schedules transformed time into a measurable resource, calendars were organized according to the cycles of the moon. The work places this cyclical conception of time in relation to the capitalist organization of time, in which rhythm is increasingly replaced by productivity, synchronization, and valorization.
Printed onto an institutionally devalued currency, the lunar phases mark the transition from cyclical to economic time. What once structured time now appears as a future site of value production: the moon shifts from an instrument of timekeeping to an object of extraction, extending the logics of capitalization beyond the Earth.



[photo]
Dirk Tacke
[related text]
The Alienation of the Moon Kalas Liebfried, 2024
published, 20 sec magazine, issue 8, 2024