Delicatessen - On offer: paintings, embroidery, ceramics, woodwork, and motorized objects—produced, arranged, and presented like merchandise, sometimes special items. Well-fed men had eyes too big for their stomachs; mice have to help out. The installation draws on my own past in the restaurant and service industries. Prices, signs, labels, and the logic of the offerings are modeled after snack bars, supermarkets, and sushi restaurants: standardized, discounted, often already on sale. Art appears here not as a singular work, but as a product in circulation—comparable, interchangeable, negotiable. The space follows the logic of a market: daily specials, visual overload, competition between the objects. The most attractive pieces are displayed at eye level. As in a street market, a tension arises between value and price, craftsmanship and consumption, one-of-a-kind pieces and mass-produced items. Elaborate one-of-a-kind pieces are treated like bargains. The delicatessen thus becomes a stage for a contradiction: between artistic practice and its commercialization. Perhaps there’s something here for you.
In the end, an inventory.