Postcapital

Postcapital, 2006

Installation. Wood, metal, polychrome plaster, PVC, cardboard.
Variable dimensions.

Installation view at Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona

Ontario Art Gallery Collection (AGO)

Postcapitalis an attempt to define the coordinates in which contemporary capital can be understood and the displacements it has undergone in the last 15 years with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

With the end of the Cold War and the system of opposites that it implied: Capitalism-Communism, contemporary society finds itself with a redefinition of political and cultural frontiers from which new directions emerge. The discussed “Global Culture” and “Global City” begin to replace or counteract the absence of a system of opposition such as that proposed by the real Communist system.

Placed as a model of any city, the buildings that exist and represent the paper money of more than 140 countries are rendered with computer programs, and then erected in wood and other materials to build models. Each country defines itself with a specific building on its paper money, government buildings, mints, banks, palaces, mosques and minarets, colonial architecture, bridges, city gates, animals, faces of artists, historical figures. Surrounding the table a legend reveals the denomination of each banknote. Each building or sculpture has a number and each number appears in the legend surrounding the table.

A city-theme park that takes us on a guided tour through an imagined city, an economic utopia, the non-border of a world traversed by its need for power, represented by papers that summarize its political-economic power and redefine a new cartography. “Postcapital” tries to subtract and neutralize these powers, by placing each representation at the same hierarchical level and by proposing this new world from its museum representation

Estudio Carlos Garaicoa
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