PORTUGAL - Fernando Pessoa | Poet and writer Photograph - Limited Edition of 7

- C-type Pigment Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl - laminated on aluminium-dibond - edition of 7+2AP - numbered and signed, date and title The project banknotes - faces of currencies The single banknote comes and goes. Through very different hands, probably through the whole world. Its appearance changes in the process. Its feel. Also its value. Diversity, color, symbolism - the culture and history of a country are manifested in the depictions and lettering on the banknotes, and monuments are erected to very different people for various reasons. The banknotes are pocket-sized works of art that are elaborated down to the smallest detail. Although they are subject to strict standards for security reasons, each banknote - visually defined by its front and back and only recognizable by watermarks or holograms visible against the light - is always unique. Banknotes of current currencies fresh off the press, worn bills, valuable collector's items, historical commemorative banknotes, or special editions in small print runs: Stefan Kuhn wants to open up new perspectives with his photography, which shows banknotes - even those we use every day - in a way that even an intensive observer has never seen them before. Kuhn combines the front, core, and reverse of a banknote in a single image, thus creating a symbiotic view that shows both the familiar and the unknown at a glance, which at the same time awakens memories and causes irritation.