Jelle Mastenbroek, Money Socks, 2013

Jelle Mastenbroek

Money Socks, 2013

55x28x25 cm

Edition of 300 + 1 AP

Bringing money to the banks has not been consistently safe throughout the years as one might thought. My grandmother had a solution for this; a sock under the mattress, a...

Bringing money to the banks has not been consistently safe throughout the years as one might thought. My grandmother had a solution for this; a sock under the mattress, a Dutch custom. This piggy bank makes saving always nice and secure. Every time money is being thrown in, you hear a short tune, after which it is collected in the good old sock.

Dutch designer Jelle
Mastenbroek (Groningen, 1988) is known for his interactive installations,
reminiscent of machines, musical clocks or life-size music boxes. With a push
of a button, the insertion of a coin or some other action, a whole process of -
mechanical - reactions is evoked. Playfully and with a touch of humor, they
make you think, for example, about how we deal with money or data privacy.

Jelle Mastenbroek studied
briefly at the Minerva Academy and then left for Eindhoven. He graduated from
the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2012 in the direction of "Man and
Well-Being. He received the Milano Design Award in 2016 in Milan together with OWOW
in the 'Best Technology' category for his installation Data Orchestra. His work
has been exhibited in Keramiekmuseum Princessehof in Leeuwarden, the Haags
Gemeentemuseum and the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, among others.

Photography Ronald Smits

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