Temporary Introductions
2019 – ongoing

Provisional Readymades (auction catalogue) with Daisy Charles

European Council Regulation No. 866/2004 establishes special rules for the areas of Cyprus “temporarily outside the area of freedom, justice and security,” including permitting the temporary introduction of goods from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus into the Republic of Cyprus if they are to be exhibited or used at a public event. This dispensation is triggered when the sum of the value of the goods exceeds €260. Following the procedures enumerated by the regulation, the goods were accompanied by an auction catalogue “providing reasonable evidence” of their intended exhibition.

After their mandatory exhibition at the NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol (Republic of Cyprus), the objects were sold on the condition of their long-term loan to the S.N.K. Venus Home Developers Ltd (liquidated 2011) Study Collection in Pyla, a bicommunal village located in the United Nations buffer zone.