Water, Bread, a Long Distance Phone Call
2012, Borgerhout, Belgium
This work was presented during the exhibition 'New ways to work' in an old city house next to the Turnhoutse baan, a busy traffic road and multicultural shopping street which is the home of many immigrants. As the intent of the exhibition was to reach out to the local inhabitants, I worked together with three local merchants: a bakery, a nightshop and an internet/telephone shop. In the exhibition space I places a stack of A4 papers mentioning the title of the work and the adress of the shops.  For a total value of € 345, each of these papers could be traded for water, bread or a long distance phone call. At the end of the exhibition, 147 papers were taken, only 6 of them exchanged for a loaf of bread. The remaining 141 are lost, in closets, garbage bins, drawers, piles of papers or other obscure places.