Final week to see Proscenium
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Cookie - Bird - Alphabet (once it’s gone it’s gone - edible non food - these luxury goods are killing me but I just can’t get enough), 2025
Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Belgian Milk Chocolate Chunks (28%) (Sugar, Whole Cows’ Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Salted Butter (Butter (Cows’ Milk), Salt), Water, Humectant: Vegetable Glycerine; Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Wheat Flour, Coconut Oil, Raising Agents: Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate; Molasses, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Bronze
27.5 x 11 x 11 cm (variable)
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The central prop in the exhibition, ‘Cookie - Bird - Alphabet’ is a stack of ultra processed supermarket bought cookies secured upon a bronze armature: a semi-polished cast of a 3d printed replica of Constantin Brancusi’s iconic bronze work ‘Bird in Space’. It changes as the exhibition unfolds, entering a performative cycle of decay and refreshment. This absurd act prioritises the essential structural support required for the work to function, and explores the tensions between the seen and unseen, mass culture and art, ‘real’ things and copies, difficulty and ease. These tensions bring about an ambiguity of the material agency and its reference to environment, histories, trust and the resulting facts and/or fictions.
