Trader-Foes Series
Aluminum Bottles , Decal Prints, Alcohol %75 and Essential Oil, 2020-2021.
This project stems from the appropriation of Trader Joe's Hand Sanitizer Handshake bottles.
This project entailed a year and a half of research on U.S. relations with "Allies" (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, and the U.K) the amount of trade, the nature of trade, and the history of these trades. Additionally, U.S. relations with Pharma and Weapon Companies became another focus area of my research. The focus was on the correlation of deals and contracts with political donations of these companies directly and indirectly to both parties from the local to national level. More research brought my attention to the influence of allies through the private sector on the political landscape of the U.S. Moreover as my work was expanding the function of the U.N. went on my radar. It became more apparent that its role is determined by the complex web of U.S-Allies-War &Pharma industries and their influence on how the U.N as an "international" entity functions in the face of all the recent humanitarian crises around the world.
My research became a basis for drug facts and disclaimers and directions for these hand sanitizer bottles mimicking the language of medical commodities in the U.S. while using dark humor in the form of facts that no one ever reads when they buy something.
These hand sanitizers suggest by using them one can wash their hands off the disproportional damage the U.S. cause to people around the world by its dealings, trades, and affairs with countries and entities nationally and internationally.
These bottles are categorized as: U.S-Saudi, U.S-Turkey, U.S-Israel, U.S-U.K, U.S-U.N, U.S-Pfizer and U.S-Lockheed Martin.
