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Contaminated banknote images reveal how money gets caked in bacteria

15 January 2020

Artist Ken Rinaldo encourages the bacteria on banknotes to grow and spread to explore colonialism in his touring show, Borderless Bacteria/Colonialist Cash

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Contaminated banknote images reveal how money gets caked in bacteria

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