Artist: Takahiko Suzuki
Work: Global Store Project (2009)
Partner: Shire of Kellerberrin
Location: Kellerberrin, Western Australia
Taiwan-based artist, Takahiko Suzuki engaged with the town of Kellerberrin as a site for the extension of his ongoing Global Store Project. Suzuki's process began by photographing a number of local shopfronts. These photographs were then used to create 3D models of the buildings, which were in turn photographed and printed in a poster format with the site's longitude and latitude clearly marked and the Global Store website listed. These posters later became part of a performance held by the artist and volunteers.
Suzuki views each of these elements as integral to the Global Store Project, which seeks to ironically disrupt advertising strategies of promotion while simultaneously celebrating the iconic significance of small stores that play a fundamental role in the social and economic life of local communities.
