hello I am here now, God

In 2007 the world economy entered a new, and frightening, era. In 2008 the global financial system nearly collapsed and banks around the world had to be rescued; money it seemed had ceased to be something that was understood and controlled.  In fact money had been growing and changing since the

1980’s when neo-conservatives around the world began a process they described as ‘de-regulation’ –

money was allowed to do what it wanted.

The question of what money is; and how it functions, is not one that artists generally consider, although the art-world and money have a close connection. The point of this exhibition is to look at money from an artists standpoint and to examine the many forms of money in the postmodern world and to think about how to understand, represent and evaluate how money operates in, and controls, the cultural systems of the contemporary world.  Money is both a material thing, a physical representation of exchange, and an abstract, mythological  system that is ever more complicated. Conceptualizing money, and its magical existence in contemporary culture, is a difficult and dazzling proposition; this group of artists from around the world are called the Monarterists and are committed to unravelling the mysteries of money.