“In his recent series of paintings and drawings inspired by the Moroccan dirham, Akrim chooses to highlight the representation of labor and post-colonial state iconography, of which currency is one of the main emblems. He extracts archives from the official past to propose new representations of the future; questioning the massive production of money, whose ephemeral visual identities exist everywhere in large numbers (even if they are not often seen or recognized). The viewer is invited to observe these replicas and reconstructions of currency, now out of circulation, which remain as traces of history.”
— Emma Chubb