In a somewhat hidden space at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, a video is playing called Bann. It is the work of German artist Nina Kรถnnemann and it features workers in the City of London smoking.
Elegantly dressed, they skulk in shadows and alleyways at the foot of the shiny high-rise office blocks they actually work in.
Watching the video brought to mind a comment I once heard in a
focus group in Sydney: “We smokers… we are treated worse than lepers.”
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