The global souvenir shop

Installation in Temporary Art Centre (TAC), October 2020.

Recovering materials and minerals is not only a way to reuse raw materials from an economic or ecological perspective. It is also a tool to make visible the invisible social, geographical and cultural stamps and scars of smartphone production and processing. The Global Souvenir Shop shows the ‘local memories’ of the global smartphone production system. The triptych illustrates the story of the intertwining of local material consumption with a global market.