INSTALLATION: 'PARIS L HEROINE'

Origin: A Paris pharmacy and wholesale spoon store. Installation, one hundred forty-five spoons with holes, four expresso cups, four croissants, four syringes hanging from the ceiling, and also 4 expresso cups with a spoon inside and a syringe inside the spoon’s hole. During the past twenty years, in Paris and in other big cities in France, some bar owners have begun to drill holes in their spoons because they are sick of finding them in the restrooms or having them stolen by junkies. The spoons have become useless for the other costumers. If you go to France and see holes in spoons in a bar, without saying anything , you know exactly where you are : in a junky area…