Strange Ways: Believing Is Seeing: A counterfeit treat

A new video art installation commenting on the counterfeit culture of Strangeways
The Bury New Road project commissioned artists Sandra Bouguerch and Louise Garman, from the prestigious neoartists studios, to produce a non-judgemental heritage artwork on what the media are dubbing ‘Counterfeit Street’.
Titled Believing Is Seeing, the artists were given a budget of £100 to spend on goods along the stretch, and bought a ‘Gucci’ belt, a pair of ‘Yves Saint Lauren’ sunglasses, an ‘Off-White’ ‘Sculpture’ handbag, and a ‘Christian Louboutin’ handbag...
“What is the value of the goods?” asks Louise Garman “The base value is that the copy goods are the ‘cheapest’ - they’re copies worth the hundred quid that we spent...but the original goods, if you look them up, are worth £2,740 - and if you put our purchases in a gallery and elevate them on plinths, who knows what the value of those are. It’s a play on values as well....”
Sandra Bouguerch asks in her voiceover on the video ‘Trick or treasure?’...
The police tape used in the installation is actually taken from a real Operation Vulcan raid on Bury New Road. See the full article here... www.burynewroa...