Feast, 2023

By Evelina Bernatonytė ^{Emerging artist}

300 x 300 cm

Steel, resin, PVC, wood ashes, steel wire, clear glue, snow chains, music stand, frames of two Soviet serving tables, sheets of tempered glass, cables, construction lamps, vinyl, rotten fruit, water.

While living in a system that prioritizes healthy and functional bodies, human beings are met with constant risk of becoming an object, a part of someone else or a byproduct of the system. Simultaneously, we are driven by the primal desire to spread our borders, to absorb object into oneself, overcome fear of flawedness and temporality of a body.

By rethinking the relationship between consumer culture and a human being, blurring the concepts of “consumer” and “commodity”, I construct a feast imitating the lifestyle characteristics of different historical periods. The off-centered hierarchy between the living and non living invites feast participants to question their own position in modernity. Do you belong on the guest list or a menu?

(artist’s note: Feast is an installation combining three separate sculptural objects)

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