Site Specific Art: AFRA

2025 · LED neon installation, 83 × 290 cm

The name of Saint Afra, patron saint of sex workers, written in the handwriting of a sex worker.

Before the exhibition, I visited the women several times. Seven of them wrote the word AFRA by hand, and I had the neon made after the handwriting I liked best.

The red lettering glowed beneath the Reussegg motorway viaduct in Lucerne, facing the city’s legal street prostitution zone in the Ibach area above.

“This place needs this marker.” – Stanislaus von Moos

IM FLUSS III, site-specific exhibition beneath the Reussegg motorway viaduct, Lucerne, 10 May – 26 October 2025
With Lang/Baumann and Jo Achermann · Curated by Monika Kiss Horváth, introduction by Claudia Spinelli · Organised by the Visarte project group KUNST IM FLUSS
The installation remained on site beyond the exhibition period.