Final decisions

I have to now make some final decision about what, where and when of my exhibition in order for me to then make my model.

• I will display my 5 chosen pieces of work in and around the area of 1 Berwick Road, Soho, a sex shop on the street that hosted Soho's first ever brother. Soho being the centre of London's sex industry.
• I will choose 5 pieces of work because of the 5 prostitutes killed by Jack the Ripper in London in the eighteen hundreds.
• The work will be displayed from 31st of August until the 9th of November, the first and last dates of the Ripper murders.
• I will use red lighting over the work displayed in the window, a reference to the Red Light District.
• I will display the poster in personal service adverts in newspapers/magazines and in phone boxes like that of tart cards as well as in art magazines.
• The show will be an 18+ exhibition as for the explicit adult content.

These are the art pieces i will use and how i will display them...

Ben Long, Poubelle De Jour, 2007.

Ben Long’s practice focuses on British culture and operates predominantly within the public realm to enable diverse audiences to engage with his work.

I plan to display Ben Long's London phone box filled with prostitutes call cards outside of the shop, maybe just slightly down the street. I want the exhibition to be like an installation, maybe stumbled across and not at first realised the work is all art not actual artefacts.

Shirin Fakhim, Tehran Prostitutes.

Fakhim’s sculptures play on the duplicitous perceptions of streetwalkers, highlighting the hypocrisy surrounding the sex industry. Made from found materials, her assemblages are grotesque configurations, exaggerating rough-trade stereotypes of wig-wearing, melon-chested slappers contortedly stuffed into ill-fitting lingerie.

I will display the Tehran Prostitutes on a street curb, like the 'curb crawlers' (prostitutes) in London.

Made in Heaven Suite - Jeff Koons, Tate Modern, London

I plan on displaying Koons's work in the window of the sex shop on Berwick Road with red lighting over the top. This will be an intention to mimic the prostitutes in the windows in the red light district, especially with the piece being sculptural and work will be more effective 3d.

Sarah Lucas, Bitch

I plan to display Bitch in another shop window further down the street, again with red lighting displaying a woman bend over on all fours.

Tracey Emin, Suffer Love



The third fake 'prostitute' displayed in a window with red lighting.