On view though 23 July at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona is The Cost of Money: Raft, an installation by the architect and artist Mark Cottle. Cottle with this work invites us to meditate on “the steep human price capital exacts, particularly from the most vulnerable populations, and at enormous expense to the environment.” This traveling project also seeks to strike up conversations with modern architecture, which began in the Neutra House in Silver Lake (Los Angeles).

In Barcelona, Raft presents two carpets, each measuring 13 x 6 meters. Unrolled inside and outside the pavilion like rafts on water, they are made of 10,000 plastic bags, each one representing a transaction and a residue of a consumed thing, provoking thought on our use-and-throw-away culture.