On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden)

On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden), 2013

Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2013.

In June and July of 2013 I spent two months in the city of Dresden as an artist in residence of the Goethe Institut. Besides making new works I also did quite a bit of reporting about the art world in Dresden on Trendbeheer.

On Spam, Business Proposals is a series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.

The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.

On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden), 2013

On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden), 2013

On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden), 2013

On Spam, Business Proposals (Dresden), 2013

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