In Monte di Pietà exhibition at Ca’ Corner della Regina, the two replicas of the plutei coexist with thousands of objects, documents and historical and contemporary artworks that transform the Venetian headquarters of Fondazione Prada into a fictional pawnshop, returning the 18th-century palazzo to its former role between 1834 and 1969. In this crowded and confusing space, Büchel provokes the viewer to reflect on materialism and consumerism from the perspective of debt and its transformative role in society, from a meticulously curated environment.  

During this curation process, Fondazione Prada requested the production of the replicas of the plutei through 3D printing, which represent two relevant scenes of public life during the reign of the emperor Trajan.

The first relief depicts the Institutio Alimenta, a law established by Trajan to help underprivileged children through loans in the form of mortgages to landowners whose interest was used to support poor children. The second, on the other hand, represents the burning of unpaid tax records after the Dacian wars, symbolizing the emperor’s fiscal pardon. The reverse of both plutei depicts a ritual procession of a pig, bull and ram towards a purification ritual, the Suovetaurilia.