The exhibition charts how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It shows how artists have grappled with the increasingly intangible nature of money and finance from the South Sea Bubble of the early eighteenth century to the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath.
Financial processes are often difficult to see not in spite, but precisely because, of their vast size. Finance – money, investment, credit, debt – is the air we breathe, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to get an objective view of an atmosphere that envelops us so completely.
(Taken from http://www.imageoffinance.com/exhibition)
Photos I have taken from the exhibition:
Top - Inflation Trap, 1970's, Ink on paper.
Bottom - More More, 1970's, Ink on paper.
Bank of Wapping Notes 1986
Cildo Meireles
Insertions into ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project, 1970
Simon Roberts
Graphs, 2012
This was a small exhibition which expressed finance in different creative ways, which was quite interesting. My favourite piece would have to be 'Graphs' as it produced really engaging and compelling prints, working together in a large sequence. I also really liked the us of illustration throughout the exhibition and the satirical use they played. Overall it was an interesting exhibition which has got me thinking about what I am going to produce for Studio Brief 2.
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