What can be eternal? Yeil Joo poses this question to herself and the viewers of her works, in which she addresses consumer culture and its transience in modern society. She uses sugar as a material because of its ambivalent meaning: sugar melts and thus testifies to the process of change. Sugar sweetens life – and harms us at the same time.

Bitcoins made of sugar embody the “sweet” dream of quick riches. But how realistic is this dream really? How real can a currency be that has no material equivalent?