Anna Kasperska
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Insufficiency
16.06.2014
The installation consists of a CRT television set, video, and specific exhibition space. This artwork concerns issues related to terms: usefulness, food technologization; antagonisms: freshness and mold; and relations between television, as a medium used for stimulate desire (desire of consumption), and the symbol of bread.
Mold is a part of the decomposition, the process of passing, is something unpleasant and undesirable. It refers to an intake/ usefulness, expires date and to the term of end. Installation’s component, which refers to these associations, is the exhibition space. The old walls steeped in moisture emit heavy, suffocating mold odor, which is combined with two objects: a TV and bread.
Television is a tool of medium, also the subject of consumption. It is associated with an endless stream of narration. Television as a medium refers to pleasure, it stimulates appetite, desire (hunger) impossible to satisfy. It gives a false sense of reality, the usefulness and present. Television, itself as a product subject to the processes of technologization.
Bread, as a food product subject to the same processes. It is also directly related to the consumption, hunger and satiety. Above all, the bread is strongly marked symbol in our culture. The presentation of this symbol as an image on the TV draws attention to the bread, which is involved in the ideology of consumption and is subordinated to the laws of the market. Located on the ground it emphasizes the demotion of its value as a symbol.
Presentation of the artwork included the performative element, because the participants shared a loaf of bread.