Currencies is an installation exploring the shifting relationships between trade, language, and value through the history of salt. The work draws from the Yangpu Ancient Salt Field in China and consists of a series of salt stones filled with Dutch seawater. Over the course of the exhibition, the water evaporates and crystallization begins to make visible the slow processes of linguistic erosion and trade.

Salt moved along trade routes that also carried languages, dialects, and systems of meaning. Currencies looks at how this material exchange led to semantic shifts—how the circulation of salt intersected with the formation of pidgin languages: simplified grammars developed between speakers with no shared language, often within the conditions of trade and colonization.