Disoccupazione del suolo pubblico

Typically, the street vendor illegally occupies public ground. His display counter is ephemeral, light and designed to be folded in just a few moments and “disappear”, along with the merchandise presented on it. Pedestal and countertop, both made of cardboard, form thus an easily transportable shop, replete with handles - the artisanal, homemade quality of which stands in sharp contrast with the industrially, serially produced low-cost products exhibited for sale. Armed with this equipment, these street vendors appear wherever in the city they sense a prospect of finding buyers. In the installation, the folded cardboard counter maintains its distinction of illegality in occupying public ground without licenses of any kind. The cardboard counter and the photograph exhibited on the billboard lose the distinction of artwork and of value, dodging both the regulations that define the activity of peddling and those of art-making, through a dis-occupation of public ground.