The Prophets (2013-2015)
The Prophets is a delicate hand-made collection of small, whimsical sculptures made from everyday materials (string, bamboo sticks, wire, acetate, etc.) that renders economic graphs into makeshift models. They include concrete data and mental abstractions, law-curves and fact-curves, positions drawn in logical time and in historical time, as well as a number of other forms and procedures common to economic analyses and representation. Together, the approximately five hundred models that constitute The Prophets cut across a wide range of historical and contemporary topics of interest to economists (labour, consumption, production, taxes, savings, investments, credit and so on) to constitute a diagrammatology of economic thought.
Work presented at: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Biennale de Montréal, Istanbul Biennial, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
The Prophets, 2013-2015, installation comprised of 412 elements: bamboo, coloured gel, string, metal wire, plastic, ink, paper, aluminum foil, glass and wood, 1733 cm x 81 cm x 120 cm. Installation view, Musée d‘art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. The first iteration of the work was commissioned by the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.
