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New Currency (not for sale)

Little bags with words that are more valuable than money

This project came about by chance... I gave a bag with the word LOVE to a friend. He at first moved the bag, without knowing what was in there. It sounded like old bags of coins...

I had improvised that cloth bag but he really liked it! Urging me to do more...


When I came back home I was thiking about it and decided that I would make more, but to also give them away. And since the bag was similar to that roman era bags of coins, I would put words in it, that like LOVE can´t be bought with money. Hence making of them some kind of new currency of sorts.


In these very poor times we live so obssesed about money, I think it is a beautiful project to remind us what are the really important and valuable things in life. Looks like we are forgetting recently...


The only condition of the bag is that it cannot be bought or sold. If you received one, it´s because you earned it with your human qualities. There is certificate inside the bag to attest of the sole ownership of this object.

In fact, as the certificate says, if you buy it with money, the project will loose all its worth. It is signed by the artist and only the recipient can authetically own it.


Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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