Untitled Commodity Experiment
Video / 2025
This work involves the handcrafted production of three everyday objects—a kitchen knife, a speaker, and several soaps—which are then quietly placed on supermarket shelves as a subtle intervention into the commercial system. The artist documents the making and placement of these objects through first-person video, while a collaborator later searches for them in the store and attempts to purchase them through the normal checkout process. Hidden-camera footage captures the moments in which the supermarket system either “recognizes” or “rejects” the unauthorized items.
Through minimal behavioral disruption, the work reveals the retail system’s deep reliance on packaging, barcodes, and visual conventions, exposing how product legitimacy and consumer trust are silently constructed and enforced in everyday environments.
Untitled Commodity Experiment uses a delicate yet incisive gesture to pry open small fissures within the commodity economy, briefly making visible the underlying logic that governs contemporary consumer society.
