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WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR?
FOREMAN GALLERY
JAN. 20 - MAR. 18, 2023
SHERBROOKE - BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY


What is the Value of a Dollar? invites 7 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


WALL DRAWING #5


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. PINK, BLUE AND YELLOW PRICE STICKERS PLACED IN EACH SECTION OF THE GRID AT RANDOM. EACH UNIQUE COLOUR OF PRICE STICKER APPLIED BY ONE OF THREE DRAFTSPEOPLE. EACH PRICE STICKER MARKED WITH THE DATE IT WAS APPLIED AND THE DRAFTSPERSONS' OPERATOR NUMBER.

EACH OF THE DRAFTPERSONS' UNIQUE PRICE STICKER COLOURS AND OPERATOR NUMBERS ARE POSTED ALONGSIDE THEIR HOURLY COMPENSATION AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS THEY APPLIED PRICE STICKERS.

2H PENCIL & PINK (PMS 182), BLUE (PMS 277) AND YELLOW (PMS YELLOW-C) PRICE STICKERS

DRAWN BY: NOÉMIE FORTIN, JESSICA LINTZ, CATHERINE MOLESKI

01  —    BLUE   —  $20/HOUR —  83 HOURS
02 —  YELLOW —  $20/HOUR —  38 HOURS
03 —     PINK    —  $20/HOUR —  60 HOURS

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRICE STICKERS: 49,248