Money and its Double, 2025
photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
23 x 15.2 cm
The object that is captured in the two 35mm black-and-white negatives that compose these photographs is a replica of a 1645 silver coin minted in Newark during the English Civil War and that was available in Room 68 of the British Museum as part of their handling collection (at least) between March 2023 and June 2024.
This replica was created in the context of the “Sleight of Hand” project (2023-2024). The stage that this coin was captured was before the “ageing” process. It is in the clean silver form and would be later oxidized, scratched and sanded to resemble the original old shilling.
With these two negatives, this series of unique works explore multiple exposures, masks and solarization processes playing with the possibilities in the darkroom, creating ghosts, negatives and multiplications.
unique work in a series of 13 + 3 AP
signed and numbered on reverse + certificate
£ 500
