Parco di Sculture
№ 23

The Lady Shopping

Fiberglass · 2009

This sculpture is the original fiberglass model belonging to the public installation Urban People, one of the artist's most iconic projects, later cast in aluminium and placed at the ION shopping centre in Singapore. The Lady Shopping presents a caricatured female figure with exaggerated features and vivid colours: a brilliant blue dress, red heels, bag in hand. The proud, almost aggressive pose tells of a contemporary daily life dominated by consumption. It is at once ironic and critical of the theme of commerce and shopping neurosis: the identity built through what one buys. The woman is no longer just an individual, but a symbol of an entire society absorbed by compulsive shopping.