Prize (Corpus delicti)

Comprising forty-four ashtrays and boarding passes, Prize, is part of the Corpus delicti series (1993–2001) that Leirner made of materials taken from airplanes. The series title—Latin for “body of crime” and a legal term for the material evidence of a crime—refers to Leirner’s subversive act of pilfering objects from aircraft. The ashtrays are associated with specific boarding passes that reveal information about the seat locations to which they once belonged.