Taka Taka (Second Hand Clothes Market)

2022 | Acrylic, Unstretched (No Frame)

Buy 2 get 1 free - all clothes are discounted. 500 francs can get you a sweater, coat, dress, and shirt. In fact, that same price is the cost of 1kg of salt around there. When they run to grab those clothes, the vendor asks them “since when are clothes priced the same as salt?” If they are polite like the vendors themselves, they negotiate a fair price for their clothes. This is only one of many instances of peculiar meetings taking place in taka taka or second-hand markets, where an abundance of stories and clever tricks lie hidden amongst stacks of clothes and commodities, waiting to be discovered and passed on.

See more artwork by Noah Bugingo