READY-MADE HUMAN PRODUCTS FOR SALE

Ready-Made Human Products Series represents the artificially-induced consumerism brought about by globalization.  The work addresses the effects of the Tom Yum Kung Crisis (named after the famous Thai hot and spicy shrimp soup), which occurred during Thailand’s dramatic economic expansion and collapse in 1997. This sudden change was the starting point of the global economic crisis of the late 1990’s. The series of works are comprised of a chrome street-sale trolley, a kiosk, and industrial containers.   

These components display multiple screen-printed images of human features—such as eyes, noses, mouths and brains—with barcodes mimicking product packaging. Such materials reflect the tremendous technological and industrial advances seen in recent decades across the globe, which have prompted a new value: the worship of material possessions and services.

The work demonstrates and utilizes strategies to reduce the cost of production, which are intended to bring the most benefit to the producing companies. Following these strategies, the series consists of ready-made human products that have nothing inside—only packaging which seems to contain some valuable commodity—in order to gain the greatest advantage from “customers.”