Gold of the gaps, 2020

By Jan Christoffer Rutström

12 x 10 cm

Plastic cup and acrylic paint. A cheap promotional cup was given a faux kintsugi treatment. A critique of capitalism or an admission of defeat in the face of it? The kitschification of a traditional method of mending and extending the life of a dear object has by occidental appropriation lead to the cup being rendered useless as a beverage vessel due to the paint not being food safe.

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