This exhibition presents the work of photographer Jenny Pagoni, who turns her lens toward one of the most recognisable yet often overlooked fixtures of the urban landscape, the Automated Teller Machine, also known as ATM. Captured during a 2023 trip to New York, her large-scale photographs transform these utilitarian devices into monuments of a fading era. Once symbols of convenience and modernity, ATMs now stand as out-of-date relics in a world that is rapidly moving toward contactless transactions and digital currencies.

 

Pagoni’s images linger on the varied physical qualities of these seemingly generic machines, their worn keypads, harsh lighting, and dented casings, evoking a time when money was something tangible, withdrawn, and counted by hand. Through a minimalist and meticulous aesthetic, she invites viewers to reflect on the evolving meaning of value and exchange. Set against backdrops of convenience stores, sidewalks, and sex shops, the ATMs featured in this series appear both as artefacts and as silent observers of capitalism’s changing face.

 

The exhibition critiques not only the obsolescence of these machines but also the paradox of our current economic moment, where wealth becomes increasingly abstract while its impact remains firmly grounded in material realities. With quiet irony and critical clarity, Pagoni invites us to consider what remains of money when the machine that once dispensed it is no longer needed.

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Curated by The Otherr Agency