Acrylic / Mixed media on canvas
60 × 70 cm
Finishing: High-gloss gilding with 23.75 carat Rosenoble double gold
What does ‘being free’ really mean?
Does the acquisition of more and more money mean real freedom?
Can you buy your way out of moral responsibility?
The all-pervasive advertising produces countless artificial needs and deceives consumers into believing that consumption leads to self-fulfilment and increased self-esteem. The maxim applies
‘I consume, therefore I am – someone!’
However, unbridled consumption ultimately leads to self-abandonment in the prison of greed and to enslavement in today’s money machine.
Free will is held hostage to compulsive consumption, in which moral responsibility is locked out.
