Money Talks

Money Talks is an exhibition consisting of found objects from the artist's childhood home and modified materials related to agriculture. The three boxes feature recognizable objects such as the utter lotion, as well as the more unfamiliar CHR tags, which instead of the cow's number have a declaration of love that mimics the charms one gives to a loyal friend. This mixes questions of care and exploitation. Our view of the farmer is expressed both as a rough hardworking hand, but also as the image of a profession that believe in market mechanisms. The potatoes are currently a gold mine and the delicately braided straws float above it. The organic materials suggest the fact that nature plays a crucial role, but are at the same time strangely out of balance – like the suspended corn cobs that dominate the Danish landscape as a result of monoculture.
Money Talks points to the multifaceted relationship between farmer, animals, land and capitalism, and as viewers we are the outsiders who observe through the glass.