A Talk to the Leftovers was a ghostly conference, transposing the Bourgeois Leftovers exhibition at de Appel — where the work was presented — into the past, thus becoming itself a "leftover”, a residue from an anterior time.
The installation was composed of a table and chairs, a screen, a video and a genderless voice, played by a pair of speakers.
The voice discussed Dutch paintings from the 30s and 40s, collected by the Van Abbemuseum — and exhibited for the show Bourgeois Leftovers. It questioned the political status of art through time and the difficulty of restoring the true meaning of a work of art.