‘Body Cash’ is rooted in the idea of 'value' as socially determined 'worth'.
With the organ and tissue market man establishes monetary amounts for every single marketable item in existence, starting from his own body parts.
It is the transformation of the very flesh of the poor in the fortune of the dealers and traffickers solely pivoting on the hope for survival of the wealthy. The body as a ‘material’, like any other profitable goods, is revealing the value that contemporary society accredits to Life.
The Body Trade like any other business, hides guilt and prejudice under a hyper real cape, it remodels ethics, it sets a serviceableness and induces acceptance of new gained values of lifestyle commodities (likewise luxury goods and services)
In ‘Body Cash’ I breakdown myself to sellable body parts, consumer goods up for grabs on the existing market. Some of my parts are available in the organ trafficking and official markets. Some other parts are available in the cadaver business. Tissue banks sell most of our body parts as a product, from egg to tendon: this business is able to breakdown a body into 200 products.