Philippe Parreno

I was bought for 46000 Yen

46000 Yen, paid to a design character company. "K" works!
I ended up, I ended up, like some others, in a catalogue.
Proposed to cartoon producers and comic book editors.
Yea! Like hum... like Drop dead in a comic book!

Some other characters had the...
Some other characters had the possibility of becoming a hero.
They had a long psychological description, a personal history, material to produce a narration.
They were really expensive when I was cheap!
Designed to join any kind of story, but with no chance to survive to any of them.

I / was never designed to survive...

It’s true, everything I am saying is true!
Some names have been changed, to preserve the guilty!

I / am / a product a product freed from the market place I was supposed to fill.

Drop dead in a comic book.
I will never forget.
I had just a name and an ID.

My name is Annlee!
My name is Annlee!
Spell it however you want!
It doesn’t matter. No it does not.

After being sold, I was redesigned!
Funny! I can even say now! look!
That’s how I used to be! and this is how I look now.
It’s like when you point out an old photo

Oh! Yeah! I forgot to tell you, the voice through which
I’m talking to you now, was never y voice.
I have no voice! Her name is Daniela.
She is looking at me now!
She is a model. She is not used to speaking.
She is an image, just like me.
She is used to selling products when I’ve got nothing to sell.
And I will never sell anything,
how can I? ‘Cause I’m the product!

I was bought, but strangely enough I do not belong to anybody.
I belong to whom is ever able to fill me with any kind of imaginary material.
Anywhere out of the world.

I am an imaginary character.

I am no ghost, just a shell.

Philippe Parreno, text from "No Ghost, Just a Shell: Anywhere out of World"