New Orleans was a financial centre of the US South during the time of slavery. Dutch financiers contributed to its creation.
Claire Fontaine is a collective that considers herself “a ready-made, feminist, neo-conceptual artist.”
Claire Fontaine, Untitled (Someone is getting rich), 2012
Claire Fontaine lifted this universal statement from graffiti found in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina (2005).
CLAIRE FONTAINE, UNTITLED (SOMEONE IS GETTING RICH), 2012
Image: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin
