Renowned French artist Sophie Calle explains that her pairing with Aida Makoto of Japan resulted from seeing his work at the Hara Museum in Japan. Aida exhibited a head brace as a mechanism to prevent a child's attempt at suicide (although its title, Attempted Suicide Machine 4th Version implies otherwise). Calle liked its absurdity because she says she does not like children. So, a joint interest in provocation brings these seemingly different artists together.
Taking prominence in the gallery are 176 photographs from Calle's 15-year Cash Machine project - showing portraits with text of people withdrawing money from an ATM, an act Calle equates to visiting a confessional booth. The changing ideas to realise a final outcome for this project are explained in the accompanying video, Unfinished, an artwork itself.
Her project is all about money: this acknowledges that the original photographs were taken by a security camera to simply "protect the ATM's money". We see Calle interview bankers and passers-by, inviting them to "speak of money" or "tell me how much you earn". Everyone refuses. Calle even asks a chemist to create a perfume with the scent of money - its "dampness, ink, paper and being unclean".