Banksy's New London Window Display Critiques Consumerism and Surveillance

Banksy has unveiled a new installation in a disused shop window in Croydon, London, featuring a bulletproof vest worn by rapper Stormzy at Glastonbury Festival, alongside a cradle with a swaddled baby monitored by security cameras, clocks with running rats, a gravestone reading 'Now you have reached your destination,' refugee family toys, and a stuffed Tony the Tiger rug. The vest, a stylized Union Jack, is labeled 'Gross Domestic Product' with a price tag claiming it stops .45 caliber bullets and is knife-proof, though not machine washable. A website grossdomesticproduct.com displays 'hello gdp3.' The installation critiques Brexit, consumerism, and surveillance. Banksy previously criticized Brexit with a Dover mural of a worker chipping stars off the EU flag, planned for modification on October 31, 2019, but the wall was whitewashed. Meanwhile, Sotheby's will auction Banksy's 2009 painting 'Devolved Parliament' on October 3, 2019, depicting the British Parliament filled with chimpanzees, with an estimate of around £2 million.