Cash Tendered

In this intervention 99 brand new bills of one dollar are offered to gallery patrons for sale for the modest price of 99 cents a piece. Map tracks numbered 1 to 99, placed on the lower corner of each dollar will serve to keep an inventory of the existing stock as well  as to provide a record of the bills sold. Upon receiving the payment for the bills for sale, I formalize the transaction by marking them with a small, self-inked, red stamp bearing the name of the piece, the date and the city where the intervention took place. This action serves to enact an official consecration of the object in into a work of art.

With Cash Tendered I am interested in donning money with a value other than the one ascribed to it by law, and in raising questions about inflation, devaluation and the legitimacy of the piece for sale. In Cash Tendered the seller and the buyers’ roles reverse and collapse under the pretext of a staged transaction.

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Presented at Cynthia Broan Gallery

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