MERCEDES 240D blue, owned by Penelope Ann Brooks in Umbaca
STOLEN                RECOVERED
07/02/1992            21/01/1992
19/06/1992            07/07/1992
18/07/1992            27/07/1992
01/03/1993            16/03/1992

The car was stolen four times, all within the span of a single year.

Each time, the vehicle had been parked near my home. It was always recovered in Liguria, between Imperia and Ventimiglia, near the French border. The people found in possession of the car were four in total, and they are currently serving two-year prison sentences.

Usually, I go looking for a certain type of engaging situation, but this time the events found me!

I now find myself in possession of quite a bit of “stuff” that belonged to those who used the car before being arrested.

This exhibition is not intended to express any moral judgment but rather to serve as a chronicle of the events that lead some to act as thieves and others to experience being robbed.

In this game of cops and robbers, the rules of a bureaucratic machine constantly shift—one in which we are all a little bit victims and a little bit guilty, though the measures are never the same for everyone.

Enzo Umbaca