Soi Project, a collective of artists from Thailand and Japan, brought their popular fruit stand to Brindleyplace in May 2008. Similar in style to those commonly found on street corners around Bangkok, visitors to the stand were invited to make paper fruit from specially designed template cut-outs which are then added to the display, and in return, visitors were given real fruit to take away. Soi are concerned with the increasing simulation of the world and the gradual proliferation of imagery and manmade substitutes that replace concrete reality. In addition, the stand becomes the centre for exchange of both international culture and creativity, and in the process, grows into something beautiful for its own sake, as it fills up with the brightly coloured paper shapes.

Soi Project’s fruitstand will also took up residence in Erdington’s busy High Street for one day only on 29 May 2008.