THE MONEY CIRCUS

‘The financial world is a big circus’. This idea, present in the collective ideology, is the conceptual starting point for the works I have created for the Standard rooms. I use real banknotes as a base element to construct this imaginary because they are, within the financial world, the closest object to art.

From this idea I imagined a circus scenario in which the characters that appear on the banknotes take on a life of their own, transcend the physical space of the paper money and emerge as performers in a surreal circus. To fit my proposal into the hotel’s three standard room types, I developed three versions of the concept, assigning each of them one of the world’s most important currencies as the main element: Pound Sterling, Dollar and Euro. The characters of the banknotes are always the same and rotate as protagonists of the composition, depending on the currency the room is based on. The creativity is divided into two murals (headboard and ceiling) that are physically joined but visually divided into two circus rings.

This circus includes all the characters of a real circus: jugglers, tamers, magicians, tightrope walkers… who look directly at the spectators, making them participants in the action taking place in the rings.