HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

GAINING PURCHASE

Year: 2013

Medium: Wood, bottles, paper

Dimensions: 50W x 50L  x 40H

Price:  $3000 [inc GST and 30% commission]

 

GAINING PURCHASE highlights the conundrum of purchasing codes [Quick Response Codes] enabling purchasers to ‘gain purchase’ or information on their purchases but increasing an ever more futile effort to house what is gained in the purchase. So, in fact, instead of gaining purchase on the desired goods, the goods gain purchase on the purchaser!

A quirky feature of the installation is the drawers that have their pull knobs on the inside. This suggests additional ‘purchase’ but the ‘draw’ hides out of grasp. The end of this process is, therefore, unattainable.