garoo..
“large supermarkets displaying huge amounts of products are the ‘playgrounds’ of our times. i wonder if we really need the necessity of a rise in consumption expenses as news media announce day by day.
with almost everything in the man-made world becoming commercialized and consumer products, goods are not produced and consumed based on needs, but for the sake of consumption itself. the ‘domuji handicrafts’, faces wrapped up with plastic foil, displayed like products and put in a shopping cart, symbolize the present status quo in which the system is profitable for a minority and only made for a few.
i want to confront the notion of abundance achieved through buying reproduced goods and the illusion of displaying oneself with white, modeled deathmasks looking like faces into which i stuffed trash (recyclable plastic). i want to show a process in which i turn things that i used and disposed during my work from a by-product into a main product. at the same time make the circulatory process of everyday life consisting of eating, shitting and sleeping visible in my work.
it is nothing new at all to turn deathmasks and ready-made products into objets, they are even a commonplace. but i think that using goods so common to us is the right choice for reflecting the capitalistic system with a satirical twist and to show its ridiculous aspects.” (artist's statement)
