CAPITAL CONTROL I, II
Installation
Athens, 2016
CAPITAL CONTROL I is made out of four hundred and twenty coins. This number is equivalent to the maximum amount that can be withdrawn in Greece (per week), due to the capital controlregulations that first started to operate in the summer of 2015.Capital Control attempts to connect this very specific restriction and therefore the lack of wealth, with Greek traditional handcrafts such as the decorative “semedaki”. A decorative table cloth that women use to make and was also used as dowry for their daughters or granddaughters.
CAPITAL CONTROL II reflects on the bank closures during the referendum time in June 2015 in Greece. At the same time it uses the UK term ‘Bank Holiday’ that refers to the public holiday, shifting the meaning of a holy-day or the Labour Day to the halt of the function of the economical system, the halt of the banks. The work comments on the way that societies are driven by economies and how strategies of threat are used in front of important decision makings.
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