Inspired by studies in social anthropology, P U E R C O explores the historical, cultural, and especially symbolic relationship between women and money as exchange values. Using 150 gold chocolate coins, the work evokes a childhood gesture and unfolds a ritual of transformation rooted in the Mexican tradition of the bolo, where coins are tossed to celebrate a person’s birth. Set in stillness and obscurity, the performance reflects on the supposed “evolution” between the concepts of product and property within collective imaginaries, approaching the dual reality of being both body, subject, and object.

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Drawing on Horst Kurtnitzky’s The Libidinal Structure of Money, the piece dialogues with the historical evolution of money and its symbolic embodiments, from pigs and women in various cultures to the coined currency of today.