Point of Sale
We wander beneath the billboards.
The words and images they display have been constructed at great cost.
Their height and size protects them while dominating us.
These reflections of control and desirability form an architecture of
surfaces which sell us an ideology of progress: the pursuit and accumulation
of wealth. In a turning of the tables, symbols of another marketplace
- scrawled prices, scribbled signs - pull in the hubbub of shouts, jokes
and insults rather than accepting the din of power and the hum of spies.
The discarded and the overlooked rise up, finding new value in their exposure.
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