I Love Real Life

various locations, Bremen, Germany

6 x neon each approx 150cm x 25 cm

1998

For the project Do All Oceans Have Walls? in Bremen installed respectively in a church, school, hospital, police station, office and fast food bar. I wanted this simple statement to permeate these institutions we move through as we live and die, here unified by the simple text 'I Love Real Life'. It was unforseen that they should become so popular within these institutions. The sign in the police station is still there and the minister in the church wanted to keep his too. Unfortunately this was not possible, so instead he delivered a sermon using the text of the neon as its theme.