Toronto artists install fully stocked but inaccessible floating convenience store as waterfront art
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Katy Cowan
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Toronto artists Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean, with design studio Puncture, have created "Global Convenience" – a fully stocked convenience store floating on Lake Ontario as an art installation. Moored at Harbour Square Park Basin on Toronto's waterfront, the piece transforms an ordinary corner shop into an inaccessible, glowing, solar-powered artwork. The store is filled floor-to-ceiling with typical convenience store items but deliberately left unreachable, challenging viewers' perceptions of accessibility and everyday spaces.
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· 3 pulledCalled Global Convenience, it's a new artwork moored at Harbour Square Park Basin on Toronto's waterfront
transplanting one of the most ordinary spaces in any city – the corner shop – onto the water, filling it from floor to ceiling, yet leaving it deliberately inaccessible
glowing, solar-powered and just out of reach
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