In 2006, Niels Post hung a mailbox on the Erasmus Bridge without asking, claiming the bridge as his personal postal address. In the nine weeks that the mailbox was there, Post received 134 letters and cards from all over the world. On 14 July 2006, the municipality decided it was time to remove the mailbox. The artist was invited to be present, so that he could collect the last of the mail and take the mailbox back to his studio. When the Erasmus Bridge celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2016, the FRANK Foundation invited Niels Post to create a new work as part of Playing The Erasmus Bridge. This work was entitled On Spam, Lectori Salutem #6 is a text from the artist's spam filter, which loosely refers to the many holiday greetings he got from his mailbox ten years earlier in exactly the same place. For people who do not know the story of the mailbox, including the many tourists who walk over the Erasmus Bridge every day, it is mainly a friendly greeting that raises questions. The work will be temporarily removed in early 2024 due to restoration work on the bridge. For more information: Sculpture International Rotterdam.
