“I am therefore I shop” is exploring our consumer-driven society.
Online shopping and e-commerce companies have been in the news during the Covid-19 lockdown. As homebound people seek fulfilment, online shopping has increased, pushing the online business practises into focus again. Inhumane treatment of workers from production through to delivery has been exposed. Furthermore, we know online shopping is environmentally unfriendly, unsustainable and it kills our local businesses. Despite our wokeness, our appetite for online fulfilment remains insatiable.
“I am therefore I shop” is a reference to Barbara Kruger’s “I shop therefore I am”. Kruger’s slogan from the 1980’s asks whether the public is no longer defined by what it thinks, but rather by what it owns. By reversing the slogan, the consumer’s role becomes passive, almost ambivalent. It exposes our society’s entitlement and passiveness as if we had no choice but to shop, as if shopping was part of us.
Utstillingen er en del av prosjektet ‘Ung i Stavanger’ initiert av Kunstskolen og muliggjort ved støtte fra Stavanger kommune.
Åpningstider:
Fredag 23. Oktober 2020, Kl. 18.00-21.00
Lørdag 24. Oktober 2020, Kl. 12.00-16.00
Søndag 25.Oktober 2020, Kl.12.00-16.00