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Basic Necessities
2021 By Nestor Siré, Steffen Köhn
As government-run supermarkets closed during lockdown in Cuba, digital black markets evolved on messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram, becoming valuable spaces for swapping essential items and sharing information on scarce products. Basic Necessities is an artistic research project that documents the repurposing of existing tools to circumvent a collapsing system, analysing the visual product exchange of over 700,000 users.