The Phenomenology of Shopping (Party America, The Grove, Los Angeles, California)
A large-scale chromogenic print captures the interior of a Party America retail store at The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, rendered with crisp, documentary-like precision and mounted behind acrylic using the Diasec process. Beshty's image scrutinizes the overwhelming visual spectacle of consumer culture, with densely packed shelves of festive merchandise flooding the frame in a cascade of synthetic color and manufactured joy. The work situates the mundane landscape of American retail within a phenomenological inquiry, inviting viewers to reflect on the lived experience of commercial spaces and the seductive, disorienting excess they produce.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, Diasec mounted
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 16, 2014
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