Plastic bags, permanent marker, 2012
“Money is a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value. Any kind of good can serve as money, if it is accepted as such by custom, social agreement or positive record. “(Austrian National Bank).
Some societies made money out of valuable materials like precious metals or rare shells. Today’s money’s face value has nothing in common with its real value (the price for the paper it’s printed on for instance).
Moreover, in times of war or crisis, “emergency currency” could be issued that could be made of virtually any material available: silk, wood, aluminium foil or even pressed coal dust.
With this in mind I created money out of plastic bags. I named it “Air Money” which has only value as a work of art.
