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Untitled (gold), 2012
Wall modification and gold
The installation consists of a hole in a brick wall where a golden nugget is inserted. Scratching the hole is resulting a little dusty mountain being on the floor.
Variable dimensions
Unique piece

The artist wanted to extract gold from electronic scraps, such as chip in cell phones, CPU mother board, computer ram, all electronic IC chips and circuit board etc. Mostly Japanese/Taiwanese/Korean electronic producer companies whose factories drawn by recent flood in thailand. Someone who bought from the companies 6 tons of the waste has extracted gold from these waste for him. Pratchaya has been told that this pure gold nugget was 99.6% extracted from about 400 kg of electric IC chips waste.

Exhibition view, Le mont Fuji n’existe pas, 2012, Le Plateau, Paris, 2012

Exhibited:


2012 'Le mont Fuji n’existe pas', Le Plateau, Paris

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