Money

Cash, dough, bucks, coins, cheddar, silver, bread, loot. They say money makes the world go round… or is it pushing us toward destruction? Around the turn of the century, Miguel Brieva began drawing strange satirical scenes in old notebooks and diaries. Scouring vintage magazines at Madrid’s Rastro market, he became increasingly aware of the unhinged, hypocritical reality we live in: “I realized that the bold clash between the bright, naïve graphics of early consumer society and the brutal rhetoric of late-stage capitalism created results that were both hilarious and chilling—often with an eerie ring of hidden truth.”