MOUTHLESS
MOUTHLESS
Soft Serve, Metal, Artificial Readymade Tongue, Acrylic, and Mechanical Component
2024
135 x 40 x 30 cm
This work explores the tensions between desire, labour, and consumption. Mechanical tongues relentlessly lick melting soft serve, evoking unfulfilled cravings, emphasises the absurdity of repetitive, and mechanical labour. The installation embodies a visceral commentary on the commodification of pleasure and the absurdity of mechanised consumption, where satisfaction is forever out of reach. It reflects contemporary society's cyclical, exploitative nature of production and desire. The tongues' futile attempts to 'consume' something that is both fleeting and unattainable critique how automation dehumanises effort and how such systems often fail to meet human needs.
TONGUE - Packaged in Limited Edition of 50, Hand Signed