What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed, 2009
Stack of Zimbabwean Dollars banknotes
100 x 100 cm
A sculpture made of Zimbabwean Dollars (ZWD) banknotes, currently the world’s lowest currency, with banknotes reaching 50 trillion ZWD.
To realize this piece, the artist has exchanged 5 000 euros he earnt from recent years to ZWD, setting up a system of recollection and exchange with people in Zimbabwe. Banknotes are sent in Paris little by little and displayed as a growing stack of paper on the floor, materializing the process of completion of the work : the form/appearance of this sculpture evolving during the time of the show.
Pratchaya Phinthong, What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed, 2009, Process of gathering a stack of Zimbabwean Dollars banknotes during show
Exhibited:
2012 'The Generational', New Museum Triennial, New York
2011 'How to Work', Kunsthalle, Basel
2011 'Until it Makes Sense', Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
2010 'Permanent Mimesis, an Exhibition on Realism and Simulation', GAM,Torino
2009 'What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed', gb agency, Paris
Reproduced:
2011Flash Art, review online # 295
2011 Exhibition catalogue,‘The News of the Day,The Problems of the Hours’, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok
2010 Mousse Magazine, Issue # 26,‘Pratchaya Phinthong’ by Raimundas Malasauskas, 2010
2010 Exhibition Catalogue ‘Permanent Minesis, an Exhibition on Realism and Simulation’, GAM, Torino
2009 Flash Art, Oct, Pratchaya Phinthong at gb agency
Collection:
Kadist Art Foundation