Your Kidney Supermarket, Storefront Installation, India

Description:

The installation gloomily portrays a future global organ trading system in which moral concerns have no place. The uncontrolled consumer greed of the first world, often concealed by a utopia of benevolent globalization, is exposed as “take-away” kidneys are waiting for their customers, and luxurious offers are available online for medical tourism. Visitors are informed about organ trade routes, reminiscent of colonial times, as well as the life history of donors, who sell their organs for financial reasons. Gift of the artist.

Attribution:

Gupta, Shilpa

Date:

2002

Physical Location:

# 8201 Box 1

Cite As:

Shilpa Gupta, Your Kidney Supermarket, Storefront Installation. India, 2002. Gift of the artist.