'Supermarket' in Shanghai sells nothing but empty cans, bottles

2016-04-15 15:58

By (chinadaily.com.cn)

'Supermarket' in Shanghai sells nothing but empty cans, bottles

A view of "Xuzhen Supermarket", an art installation that highlights the emptiness of mass consumption, on Yuyuan Road in Shanghai, on April 13, 2016. [Photo/VCG]

Imagine going to a supermarket but instead of packed shelves all you see is empty cans and bottles. This is exactly what artist Xu Zhen has done.

To highlight the emptiness of mass consumption, he opened his first "supermarket" in an art gallery in 2007. It was filled with nothing but empty bottles, cans and boxes.

Now he has taken his "supermarket" out of galleries and art fairs to a street in Shanghai.