Lowest Prices resulted from my research and residency at LKV, Trohndheim, Norway, funded by UNESCO (April - June 2007).
It featured in my first solo exhibition - Europe at Financial Times at Babel Art Space, Trondheim.
How does it happen that I get to sell my body to the highest bidder?
What have I become when I have/can make my body a dumping place for anyone’s instrument- and they can bargain before they use or take me like some item in the store? What can I say when this is indeed a real need?
This piece is a result of ‘Europe at Financial Times’ Unesco-funded project, where I studied foreign prostitution in Norway.
There is a collection of a selection of the artist’s body in different positions representing any black woman’s body. These images of the female black body are posed with some other images of pleasurable items, all grouped in one category and laid out for sale to the highest (European) bidder.
Also posed with these are more samples of pleasure’s remains. The prices of any of these items can be beaten down to the bottom price. Should the entire assortment be taken down to the bottom price, especially the female body?
The title of this work has been picked from the advertisement of one of Norway’s most popular grocery stores ‘Bunnpris’, which has the slogan ‘Prisene Til Bunns Ikke Utvalget’.
Lowest Prices resulted from my research and residency at LKV, Trohndheim, Norway, funded by UNESCO (April - June 2007).
It featured in my first solo exhibition - Europe at Financial Times at Babel Art Space, Trondheim.