After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the communist regimes, the transition to free market economy and private ownership became a challenge for many of these countries. In Macedonia, factories were sold for ridiculously cheap prices to a clique of newly established businessmen who were just interested in making a quick profit. As a result, hundreds of workers were left without jobs, the factories operated only formally, producing mostly faulty products and rejects in the process. The relation between these discarded products, the laid off workers and the artist’s standpoint became the basis of this work, the ultimate paradigm of this relation being the ready made vs. the ‘not- ready made’.
The project lasted for one year. Within this period, several bankrupt factories were visited and large quantities of their rejected products were relocated to local galleries, most of them also in derelict condition. The objects were exhibited as art installations, deliberately referring to the works of Arman, Beuys, Tony Cragg etc.
The final exhibition took place at the City Museum with samples collected from the previous installations, accompanied by word definitions of “bankruptcy”, "reject", “ready made” etc. projected on the gallery walls.