1, 2, 3 — Cherries, Inflated PVC, ropes, pendants, 2020
4, 5 — Bounty of the Mutineers, detail. Cardboard box, 1.39” round screens, videos on loop (2’34” and 2’58”). 2020
6 — You might wanna get checked, postcard, 2020
Voyez l’Hiver: ce champignon entre les lèvres semble un organe hypertrophié, cancéreux, hideux: je vois le visage d’un homme qui vient de mourir, une poire d’angoisse en- foncée jusqu’à l’asphyxie dans la bouche.*
*R. Barthes “Arcimboldo ou Rhétoriqueur et magician” 1982
A fleshy allegory of decay has fallen from mannerism. It has been used so often over the centuries that has lost its plumpness, aged poorly and lays now drained and ailing (sfruttata, neither the fruit nor the parable are left).
You might want to check on this, a pear of anguish, a cherry
of anxiety. Some fruit pits are so small they can accidentally
be swallowed; the instrument must be proportional to the
player. videos on loop (2’34” and 2’58”).
Look at Summer: Memories of a scene that got stuck on the lenses and crystalized right before the eyeballs. The red- dened eyes turn out to be small cherry-peaches in a flyer of Pacha.