GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT

Title: Gross Domestic Product - Banksy

"In October 2019 an unusual shop appeared overnight in Croydon, South London. Its windows were filled with dystopian, tongue in cheek and yet striking artworks that could only have been made by one man, Banksy.

As queues of fans formed round the block it soon became clear that this was not a shop at all but merely a showcase for the artist’s latest project. The real shop was online (shop. grossdomesticproduct.com), with the ironic title: ‘Gross Domestic Product™… where art irritates life’, and it wasn’t quite a shop in the traditional sense.

Rather than adopting a retail model of first come first served, Banksy decided to make his potential customers answer a question before they could own one of his artworks/ products. The (age-old) question to be answered was “Why does art matter?” "1