
“Factory Fetish explores the all too usual trend and the uncomfortable proximity between artists’ attraction to underdeveloped urban spaces and their eventual discovery, commercialisation and development by real-estate speculators. Through the development of cultural capital we see a translation into market value in which sites of culture are holding bays for property development. In this way art practice is regarded as a resource, that can be used both positively and on the other hand sustains exploitative systems, including forms of self-exploitation through social networks and gentrification…”