The Price of Inequality translates global income disparity into spatial, material, and behavioural systems. Using Gini index data, the project maps regions based on wage suppression, labour exploitation, and uneven economic distribution, transforming statistical data into physical environments.

The work continues the artist’s earlier project (Dis)continuity, produced through personal debt. Here, real currency becomes sculptural material, exposing economic pressure as both a condition of production and a form of material vulnerability.

Paper-crafted landmarks and miniature houses are arranged on enlarged inequality maps. Their colours correspond to income data, visualising how global hierarchies structure housing, infrastructure, and visibility.

Origami cockroaches folded from US dollars, Thai baht, and Chinese yuan move across the installation. Some are attached to small robotic devices that collide unpredictably with structures and boundaries. Their unstable trajectories mirror the precarity embedded within contemporary labour systems.

Rather than presenting inequality as a moral critique, the work focuses on how economic systems operate through circulation, automation, and everyday compromise. Currency functions simultaneously as skin, mechanism, and risk.

By investing personal resources into the project, the artist positions herself within the same structures she critiques. Inequality is approached not as distant data, but as an ongoing condition shaping production, mobility, and survival.