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Work by the collective gallery and this is the explanation…

Freee’s work uses slogans, performances, billboards and publications. They are interested in the traffic between the gallery and the street, between art’s institutions and everyday culture, and between art and politics. As a group they do not make work that addresses issues in a thematic way; instead they aim to divide opinion and challenge debate. In this new work, they aim to use the Polish experience to trigger a much wider debate about the underlying issues of global capitalism that Polish immigration is just one part of.

The exhibition How to be Hospitable will accompany the three Billboard commissions that are being shown within Edinburgh.

Billboards:
Edinburgh City Centre Billboard Locations:

Location 1 – Salamander Street
Location 2 – Abbey Lane
Location 3 – Easter Road end off Brunswick Road

Three new billboard works commissioned by the Collective Gallery’s One Mile Project and created by artist collective Freee are on display in Leith. These striking billboards have been created in response to the recent wave of Polish immigrant workers in the UK and particularly in Edinburgh. They will read: Fight Against Multiculturalism Commodifying Your Difference; Immigrants of the World Unite!; and I am a Foreign Citizen; I am a Local Outsider; I am a Migrant Worker.

Blah – know any further about the origin or anything?

Very strange. How exactly do you “commodify” anything?

If it’s supposed to make us think in a racist fashion then it shouldn’t be posted in a public place. Thought that was the law.