How to Remove Writings From Bills Using Nail Polish Remover, 2019Video/Performance, 52min and 57s
"With my best regards, for the eternal memory, congratulations, I Love you..." are some of the phrases that are found daily on Egyptian banknotes, which many use to record moments of significance to them. These moments can be a birthday or a souvenir for a person, lovers use it as well to write love phrases as a memory. This form of expression evolved with the Egyptian political precarity to become a way to manifest resilience and solidarity.
All that has become a hindrance since March 2019, after the Egyptian Central Bank prohibited the circulation of any banknotes that carry text phrases or seals, and that they will no longer be accepted in banks.
“How to Remove Writings From Bills Using Nail Polish Remover” is a video-performance by the artist that represents a simple repetitive process of cleaning the bills, each one of them becomes slowly damaged, shredded and loses its function or value. The performance contemplates notions of disappearance, transmutation and going back to the original state.
