"amazon basics 82,667 "is an installation work consisting of multiple objects using only productsfrom the company's own brand, "Amazon basics," which can only be purchased on Amazon.com.
The objects are a reconstruction of the distorted combinations of products caused by thecharacteristics of Internet shopping,
such as buying products of different genres in bulk or purchasingproducts in large quantities, and are combinations that encompass contingent situations, like theinside of a cardboard box at the time of delivery.
In addition, the method of purchasing motifs for the work relying only on product images, and only seeing the actual product when it arrives at the studio to begin production,
points to a new aspect of consumer activity in the post-Internet era, where the values of image and object are reversed.
The number 82,667 in the title refers to the total purchase price of the products used in this work.
Anyone can create this work, as long as they pay the full amount to Amazon.com, purchase the products, and put them together according to the combinations specified by the artist after they arrive.
The artist advocates and practices a new form of ready-made art that can be called "purchased art," in which the motifs of the work are purchased and assembled according to the combination (recipe) proposed by the artist,
which can be regarded as a form of art work.
However,once the production or sale of the product used stops, the work can no longer be created anew.
The lifespan of purchased art is linked to the short cycle of capitalism and consumerism.
