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Vive le Capital

Grantees
Orit Ben-Shitrit
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
2012
Exhibition Grant

Vive le Capital a single channel film installation Ben-Shitirt shot at 14 Wall Street, the former Bankers Trust Building. The film revolves around a love/hate relationship with money. The plot pirouettes between the protagonist’s soliloquy in French, and dancers who respond in various transgressive behaviors. Three of them travel to the time of Cosimo De Medici and visit the roots of the banking system. They pay homage to the French Revolution by embodying John Law, the first Ponzi schemer in history who caused the bankruptcy of Louis XIV’s monarchy.

Orit Ben-Shitrit, Vive le Capital, 2010–12, single-channel video installation.

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