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WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR?
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR?
ACE ART INC.
SEP. 09 - OCT. 15, 2022
WINNIPEG
What is the Value of a Dollar? invites 6 artists and collectives to examine how profit-driven entities have historically exploited and dominated societies, communities, and bodies. Using video, installation, photography, and painting, the exhibition enfolds complex matrices of racial politics, socio-economic (dis)parity, and political agency to argue that North American economies not only exist, but flourish through marginalizing their own consumers and workforce. Capitalist frameworks feed off of subjugated bodies to reinforce economically productive hierarchies of race, culture, gender, and affluence. The exhibition's title questions how monetary capital is traded and valued against ethical, cultural, and physical sacrifice. Included works employ capitalistic visual language, which acts in protest against market-based economies. Research-based approaches are utilized to historically map capitalism's reliance on the communities it targets and marginalizes. What is the Value of a Dollar? argues that there cannot be ethical consumption and production under capitalism, and offers ways to reclaim agency by co-opting corporate tactics and language historically used to disenfranchise.
Curated by: Matthew Kyba
Curated by: Matthew Kyba
WALL DRAWING #3
A 1X1 INCH GRID OF DOTS DRAWN OVER THE ENTIRE WALL USING A 2H PENCIL, STARTING FROM THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL MIDPOINTS OF THE WALL. A FLUORESCENT GREEN PRICE STICKER PLACED IN EACH SECTION OF THE GRID FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND TOP TO BOTTOM. EACH PRICE STICKER MARKED WITH THE DATE IT WAS CREATED AND THE PRICE OF THE LABOUR USED TO EXECUTE THE WALL DRAWING.
2H PENCIL & FLUORESCENT GREEN PRICE STICKERS
DRAWN BY: SEAN WEISGERBER
ASSISTED BY: BRIANNA WENTZ
TOTAL NUMBER OF PRICE STICKERS: 22,794