“Since 2011, Antonio Contador and Carla Cruz have been jointly building the project Finding Money, which begins with the simple gesture of picking up lost money found on the ground. This collecting is a pretext for discussion between the two artists, one living in Paris and the other in London. It was inspired by filmmaker João César Monteiro’s “Parisian diary”, in which he describes staying in Paris in the 1990s and stumbling upon coins in the streets every day. The artist duo write a journal, describing places passed through, their moods and reflections through their day-to-day finds. The coins are then destroyed and diverted. Out of use, they acquire a whole other value through a poetic repurposing.
Antonio Contador and Carla Cruz’s search for money questions our consumption systems, our relationship with the sacred and our ways of giving. Walks, performances, readings, seminars and publications: Finding Money is a long process that evolves at the whim of invitations and encounters. (…)”
Finding Money is presented at the Théâtre Brétigny as part of the cycle “Money does not buy happiness”. The exhibition consists in a series of murals and a publication. This publication brings together photographs of collected elements and a recent unpublished part of the journal kept by the two artists. It was produced in collaboration with graphic designers Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé.
With the support of Porto. through the project Shuttle