Banca Rotta is a series of seventeenth-century money changer’s tables, each sawn in half. The work references the origin of the term “bankrupt,” derived from the Italian banca rotta—literally “broken bench”—a practice historically used to mark the insolvency of money lenders in Northern Italy.

Each Banca Rotta is titled and dated according to the table’s origin and the year it was split, turning a marker of financial collapse into a sculptural artifact.