The Ghosts of Exquisite Materials

The Ghosts of Exquisite Materials, 2019
Cybele Cox, Szymon Dorabialski, Audrey Newton and Yeliz Yorulmaz

yeliz yorulmaz

Mon, Jun 10, 4:08AM (1 day ago)

to Szymon, Audrey, Cybele

I couldn't sleep again :) I can't think of anything but the installation and I can't stop thinking.

Many objects are still very familiar; Cybele's baroque and funnily erotic figurative sculptures with strange historical connotations (just a contemporary man wearing rings and a suit showing his ass and another sucking himself = you can never see them at a church -or any other sacred place- sculptures, the most distant form of a contemporary sexuality in medieval looking sculptures, earthy ancient man time-travelled sculptures). Szymon's weird sacred columns suspended from the ceiling using the sexiest rope ever, manifesting their own religion in a funny way (cheap found objects trying to look important, and that's the whole idea behind a religion!!). Audrey's living and reserved plants, enigmatic squares and half spheres, fleshy objects, eggplants are like the necessary elements to make people engage with the religion (like candles, fruits, Jesus's hair, skin, pimple, etc. to worship) And my big fat animals are ready to be sacrificed (like a virgin), or they're sacred themselves (like Hindu cows). But in a closer look, it's all fake because the sacred cow is actually a shopping trolley and the virgin pig is the business pope. All religion is a business in the end.