Gilding work in progress                            Global Minimum Wage Data published from 2024

As part of Foreign Investment’s GOLD series, which has been running since 1997, this project transforms forgotten or unwanted items into an valuable work of art through the ancient art of gilding.
The work questions how we assign value, the fairness of labour, and the systems that underpin global capitalism. Through this magical transformation, it demonstrates that value is not inherent, but is shaped by context, history and attention. In doing so, it asks: What do we value, and why?

To date, unwanted household items have been collected from the public and transformed in the gallery space through gilding – a process that creates new value through care and material.

“Foreign Investment” highlights with up-cycling what is often overlooked; it reveals the hidden networks of production, consumption and waste that underpin everyday life.

Following the successful mid-season sale, which sold out in March, it’s now time for the END-OF-SEASON SALE! Your last chance to invest in an affordable, original work of art that you can take home with you straight away.

Please note: You still can drop off any unwanted items (provided they are no larger than 30 cm) until 20 May at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong

 

Video of the project: https://next.frame.io/share/820d0e7d-2a21-4220-b165-ad7bba01f277/view/322faa4d-278d-4a53-ac75-d4497bf67d4e

Press Release

Foreign Investment (fi) is an international artist collective based in the United Kingdom which, since 1996, has been questioning the commercialisation of the art world, whereby the art object and the image of the individual artist become investment instruments.
It explores how the economy shapes our world – from the personal to the global – and in doing so highlights the social and cultural changes taking place all around us. The work invites us to take a closer look at the conditions under which we live and to imagine how we might collectively reshape our shared environment.

 

Inspired by the ‘Dinner in the Iguanodon Model’ (1853) media dinning event, initiated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins at Crystal Palace.  Hawkins set up the famous “Dinner in the Iguanodon” on New Year’s Eve 1853 inviting 21 leading academics to sit inside one of his dinosaur sculptures  to dine and debate. In 2022 foreign investment reconfigures the concept to interrogate the morality of genetics with invited guests inside ‘a giant pigs heart’ and audiences to peer into the debate at the dinning table.

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for London Biennale 2020, Masks, Mirages and the Morphic Mirror incl. a live Street Social Distance Dance on Lind street London

following an invitation by http://www.rosemarycronin.co.uk the CARRYING ON film, launched in March 2020 just before lockdown at the Freud Museum as part of You Burn Me an evening of immersive performance and film marking against the backdrop of International Women’s Day. Carrying On leads the viewer through a cycle of emotions that range from female fragility to increasing tension, persistence, crisis and exhaustion. Made and produced by ‘Foreign Investments’ In collaboration with Megan Herschel of Femmetasia, Directed by Alma Tischlerwood, Cinematography: Alex Forsey, Sound: Max Ripple

 

 

 

HAPPY HOUR ! is inspired by weather reports, swinging between normality and crisis mode in the summer of 2019, a summer of rising temperatures, burning Tundra, deforestation and rapidly melting Greenland ice. The empty space of the Holden Gallery will provide the backdrop to a dance session, provocations and interruptions. In addition to the visuals and the sound, we are asking some vexed questions around the problems of making art in times of impending disasters and  what it means to us socially, ecologically and environmentally. Interruptions is a series of interdisciplinary performances and events that intersects the Holden Gallery’s annual programme of exhibitions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.10.19     6pm to 7.30pm 

Interruptions is a series of interdisciplinary performances and events that intersects the Holden Gallery’s annual programme of exhibitions.

HAPPY HOUR is inspired by weather reports, swinging between normality and crisis mode in the summer of 2019, a summer of surging temperatures, burning Tundra, deforestation and rapidly melting Greenland ice. The empty space of the Holden Gallery will provide the backdrop to a dance session, provocations and interruptions. In addition to the visuals and the sound, we are posing some vexed questions around the problems of making art in times of impeding disaster and  what it means to us socially, ecologically and environmentally.

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  Moonshine Walk, St. Helens, Sutton Manor, commissioned by Channel 4 Big Art Programme and Helena Housing. In collaboration with the 300 local residents an event (a procession) to celebrate Sutton Manor colliery (closed in 1991) with a forward looking thrust of hope. Since then the community took on this event as their own annual procession
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  North Downs Way End of Trail Marker competition | commissionaire: KCC, managed by https://www.dadonline.uk
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  Monkey Business, Cheeseburn Sculpture Garden, Northumberland, UK
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  GOLD FOR EVERY BODY ( Rio de Janeiro) The Brazil nut was re-imported in gold to its country of origin, Brazil.
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  RIVER FLUX ceramic tiles on 12m long wall) underneath the Aragon Tower, SE8 London | commissionaire: Berkeley Homes
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  ← SKY SERIES LOST, London (2016) → FOUR WORDS, LIVERPOOL (2016) invited by Alan Dunn, artist/curator. A series of artistic interruptions on the The Media Wall, opposite Lime Street. The contributors include Gerhard Richter, Douglas Coupland, Shaista Aziz, Pavel Büchler, Fiona Banner, Levitt & Dubner (‘Freakonomics’), David Shrigley, retired seafarer Captain Pengelly, Hala Al-Alaiwat and ex-Liverpool FC striker David Fairclough and Foreign Investments. Each set of FOUR WORDS will act as a counterpoint to the sales season and the invisible pressures of this time of year, with ruminations on value, money and exchange.