You Can Buy Me

2023

Daniel Paul’s figurative sculpture You Can Buy Me at Piccadilly Circus, London, 2023, with passersby and surrounding advertising screens.
Installation view, Piccadilly Circus, London, United Kingdom, 2023. Photo: Jitka Zrust.
Daniel Paul’s figurative sculpture You Can Buy Me at Piccadilly Circus, London, 2023,
Installation view, Piccadilly Circus, London, United Kingdom, 2023. Photo: Jitka Zrust.

You Can Buy Me

2023

3D-printed PLA, cardboard, polyester and acrylic paint
270 × 200 × 200 cm
106.3 × 78.7 × 78.7 in.
Public intervention

How much does the human cost of production matter when we desire the finished product? You Can Buy Me brings this question into contact with the role of human rights in contemporary consumer culture.

The work was installed at Piccadilly Circus in London on 23 August 2023, the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Among the surrounding advertisements, the figure entered a visual field in which bodies and products were presented as objects of desire.

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You Can Buy Me installed beneath the advertising screens at Piccadilly Circus, with labelled cardboard boxes and passers-by.
Side view of the female figure in You Can Buy Me among pedestrians at Piccadilly Circus.
Visitors gathering around the figure and labelled cardboard boxes of You Can Buy Me at Piccadilly Circus.
Wide installation view of You Can Buy Me beside the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus.
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