work
Eat us
| category | Installation |
| subject | Erothism |
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| base | 150 cm |
| height | 80 cm |
| depth | 25 cm |
| year | 2013 |
Eat us
GoldCaos' "eat us" installation aims to unhinge stereotyped considerations regarding the difference and complementarity between men and women in a partially ironic and conceptual way. Food and sexual and individual identity. According to social constructions, many foods are unknowingly associated with strength and virility or with sensuality and femininity. According to some studies, the differences in identity between men and women are also reflected at the table. "Eat us" wants to be a provocative work, we are well aware that food tastes are culturally and emotionally connoted. Each of us develops food preferences according to memories, emotional meanings associated with a food, including those related to roles and stereotypes of being a man or a woman. As Leon Rappaport states (how we eat, culture and psychology, 2003) "What is good to think is good to eat." And so in our opinion this should also spill over into the sexual sphere, in which there is a mutual exchange of flavors and tastes, ... kissing, petting, etc. The taste buds trigger a series of neuronal perceptions ...
In practice, we eat each other, whether we then find ourselves full or not, depends on the quality of the food eaten. Food, sex and sleep should be the 3 absolute pleasures of life according to common thinking.
But quoting a well-known work by Francisco Goya, "the sleep of reason generates monsters"
In "eat us" even the visual sense is swallowed with its symbols such as food. The cutlery recalls the laid table, and the feminine and masculine seduction tools, arranged in a radiant way, in opposition to a rusty metal frame that partially surrounds a black panel with clear dots, a symbol of rust and obsolete sexual stereotypes and a sign of the taste buds tasting and sensory organs of the tongue, the male sexual organ is pending, the female one circumscribed (but with the phallic addition to the female or representative of the ovaries), the red border recalls the color of raw meat ...
Food and identity… we are all that we ingest metaphorically and concretely.
Best regards GoldCaos
Technique: cutting, milling, polishing, welding, painting, drilling
Materials: iron, wood, cutlery, black paint, rivets, red paint
Dimensions:
height: 80 cm
length: 150cm
thickness: 25 cm
GoldCaos' "eat us" installation aims to unhinge stereotyped considerations regarding the difference and complementarity between men and women in a partially ironic and conceptual way. Food and sexual and individual identity. According to social constructions, many foods are unknowingly associated with strength and virility or with sensuality and femininity. According to some studies, the differences in identity between men and women are also reflected at the table. "Eat us" wants to be a provocative work, we are well aware that food tastes are culturally and emotionally connoted. Each of us develops food preferences according to memories, emotional meanings associated with a food, including those related to roles and stereotypes of being a man or a woman. As Leon Rappaport states (how we eat, culture and psychology, 2003) "What is good to think is good to eat." And so in our opinion this should also spill over into the sexual sphere, in which there is a mutual exchange of flavors and tastes, ... kissing, petting, etc. The taste buds trigger a series of neuronal perceptions ...
In practice, we eat each other, whether we then find ourselves full or not, depends on the quality of the food eaten. Food, sex and sleep should be the 3 absolute pleasures of life according to common thinking.
But quoting a well-known work by Francisco Goya, "the sleep of reason generates monsters"
In "eat us" even the visual sense is swallowed with its symbols such as food. The cutlery recalls the laid table, and the feminine and masculine seduction tools, arranged in a radiant way, in opposition to a rusty metal frame that partially surrounds a black panel with clear dots, a symbol of rust and obsolete sexual stereotypes and a sign of the taste buds tasting and sensory organs of the tongue, the male sexual organ is pending, the female one circumscribed (but with the phallic addition to the female or representative of the ovaries), the red border recalls the color of raw meat ...
Food and identity… we are all that we ingest metaphorically and concretely.
Best regards GoldCaos
Technique: cutting, milling, polishing, welding, painting, drilling
Materials: iron, wood, cutlery, black paint, rivets, red paint
Dimensions:
height: 80 cm
length: 150cm
thickness: 25 cm
