This year almost three quarters of a million used vehicles no longer able to meet road standards or that are simply no longer desirable, will be shipped from the global north to Africa alone, more than half of which will come from Europe. ‘Aftermarket’ follows this journey. Through repairs, paper-work, bureaucratic offices, and the re-purposing of this consumer surplus, these products are transformed in preparation for their new lives.

As European Governments wash their hands of the old and embrace the new, the question of who bears the responsibility of what was, arises. Using documentary photography, constructed images and life-size perspective warped environments, the project re-frames spaces as unstable environments. How complicit are we in existing structures of global trade and cultural representations?