DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS (2012)
Three decades of deregulation and growing income discrepancies in the United States have led to a middle class that is financially powerless. The complete DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS includes an over 50-metre-long collage in which the story of the deconstruction of the American dream is told on the basis of images, clippings and text, as seen through the eyes of those who have been left behind in the dust of the Great Recession. DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS investigates the years of the crisis within the broader context of the century which preceded them: post-war economic growth, deregulation, privatization and budget cuts (for everyone except the military) during and after the Reagan years, and the fatal blow to the idea of American invincibility and the culture of fear after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
