Anja’s reality is a text-based work about Anja, (not her real name). Anja is a sex worker who offers drive-thru sex in the evenings in a designated Zone for sex work. In the Zone men can legally pick up a sex worker when a daytime two-way street is turned into a one-way circuit around the railway station and the Philip’s buildings in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Women are only able to work here if they have a drug problem. The women must meet regularly with social workers who have an office in a 20ft container on site. The container has showers, condoms and tea-making facilities for the sex workers.
Three Realities are presented in the work
- Anja’s
- the Caretakers’ and
- my reality (which serves as the reader’s view).
The Realities are printed as text on clear Perspex, or directly on the wall, in a script as if taken from a typed record of interview. As the viewer stops to read, their silhouette is cast on the work imposing them directly into the trio of narratives.