In Who We Trust

Exhibition & commisioned print edition at MASEREEL
Kasterlee, Belgium

June 2026

Excerpt from exhibition text:

In In Who We Trust, Huston-Herterich investigates how financial systems rely on trust, affect, and visual persuasion. The edition departs from “quilted” receipts: the artists’ studio expenses from 2025 combined with personal tickets from MASEREEL staff, forming a layered image between the personal and the institutional. Across this collage surface, she stamps a poem using a typeface derived from historical American banknotes predating the federalization of the dollar, so-called “wildcat”, “shinplaster” or “black dog” currencies. In doing so, she reveals how ornament and typography help construct economic authority. Central to the work is a question of trust: “In who we trust / to get us used to wars / costing legs and arms?”

A snarling dog sculpture, assembled from the remnants of fireworks collected from the streets of Rotterdam after the celebration of the start of 2026, examines how materials of war are normalized through commercial leisure activities enmeshed in imperialist nations' traditions across the United States and Europe.

- Frédèrique van Duppen

The print edition is a varied edition of eight prints. Using hand-made rubber letter stamps based on letters from obsolete currencies from the American midwest before the federalization of the dollar, an eight-verse poem appears across the prints of the edition through a monoprint process, where some words and phrases repeat across editions. The poem is printed over a chine-collé base of receipt paper from my own studio expenses of 2025 and the personal receipts of staff at Masereel, which are cut in a geometric pattern based off of the pattern of "contained crazy" quilts from the American Midwest.