MOUTHLESS
MOUTHLESS
2025
Soft Serve, Silicone, Metal, Acrylic, and Mechanical Component
150 x 100 x 45 cm
The work explores the automation of desire and the commodification of pleasure under late capitalism. Tongues mimic indulgence but are locked into a loop of futile labour, highlighting the way consumption and productivity collapse into spectacle. The ice cream melts, the tongues keep licking, and nothing is ever truly tasted; it questions the systems that promise fulfillments but deliver only cycles of unending demand.
Each tongue operates at a slightly different rhythm, creating a choreography of difference within sameness. This subtle variation evokes a sense of individuality caught within systemic control; labourers performing side by side, either in quiet competition or reluctant collaboration. While each machine appears autonomous, they are all bound by the same mechanical logic, echoing themes of control, depersonalisation, and repetition.