'Cash-catcher'

‘Cash-catcher’- installation Dimensions: 13560 x 9960 Materials & Techniques: Wood, hangers, paint, rope Exhibited: ‘Kamppi Trade Center’, Helsinki, 2017

The 'Cash-catcher' was an installation I made in Kamppi shopping center as a part of the ‘Media Intervention in the City’ course of the Department of Art which took place in the spring of 2017. It represents the praying powers of consumerism in the contemporary world. Shopping malls like Kamppi usually occupy central locations like bus - and railway stations full of busy people going about their daily routines. With its lucrative powers and ever appealing, luxurious venues, the mall sucks them up the stairs, where they eventually open their wallet and serve their purpose - to consume. Just like a spider praying on flies it extracts their vital powers, leaving them feel miserable and even more unsatisfied with their lives. Each 'leg' of the spider is made of 3 segments of clothes hangers attached to its body made of wood. The spider web i wove from a white rope.