An avant-garde artist claims he has fitted homeless people with trackers and put them up for sale like 'real life Pokemon'.

Danish Kristian von Hornsleth said he has so far put the 'Hornsleth Homeless Tracker' on ten men in London and is 'selling' them for £24,989 each.

He claims the people can be tracked 24 hours-a-day through an 'exclusive app'.

Danish Kristian von Hornsleth has so far fitted ten men in London with the 'Hornsleth Homeless Tracker'

He is 'selling' the men for £24,989 each and buyers will also receive a gold portrait

Mr von Hornsleth, whose previous projects include paying impoverished African villagers to change their names to Hornsleth in exchange for aid, also supplies a portrait of the homeless person to the buyer.

He told the Evening Standard: 'Each homeless person, so far 10 in total, has been fitted with a tracking device, so the buyer, or owner, can follow them 24/7 through an exclusive app, effectively converting the homeless into a real-life Pokémon Go or human Tamagotchi.'

He added: 'It fuses homelessness, privacy invasion, inequality and reality TV, with present day cultural decadence and interactive conceptual art.'

Paul Noblet from homeless charity Centrepoint said the project risks 'burying a very serious issue beneath avant garde sensationalism'.

But he added that the experiment might 'draw attention' to the fact London is home to increasing numbers of homeless people.

The homeless people can be tracked 24 hours-a-day through an exclusive app (pictured)

Von Hornsleth added: 'This project is a comment on this society as a whole.

'We can put a man on the moon, but in Britain you can't get men off the streets.

'I'm privatising the homeless. It's absurd, and it's just a mirror of the world.'