Hypothetical Value
Film Essay (2024)
This essay film focuses on investigating the relationship between space and the perceived value of individuals or groups within society. This involves exploring the discourse surrounding the attachment to money and uncovering the hidden power dynamics inherent in current monetary flows through a set of hypotheses on alternative economies in a barter system.
The artist initiated the first exchange of her painting for another object and continued exchanging to manifest the incongruity between measurable value in numerical form and hypothetical value that cannot be clearly quantified in a barter system and gift economy, whether in the realm of arts, poetic expression, time, or temporal experiences.
356 sq.m.
Acrylic painting was exchanged for
920 characters
172 words
of poem was exchanged for
26:21 minutes
conversation at Thai grocery was exchanged for
5541 miles
Thai Lottery footage by Timpika from Thailand
Hypothetical Value
Film installation and Performance intervention
Location : London bridge
Duration : 10 minutes
The artist performed a performance intervention on London Bridge by displaying the film on an unused cash machine and asking the audience to auction the objects that were rejected in the film, responding to the role of the monetary system in reality and subjective value in specific spaces, times, and societies.
