Ceci n'est pas un chien ballon (This is Not A Balloon Dog)
2020
Part of the Window Dressing series at Cerritos College Art Gallery, this installation includes a performance, columns and balloon dogs. The columns represent the Institution; the balloon dog alludes to Capitalism (Jeff Koons and his record-breaking auction sales); the performance represents the Avant-garde. Thus the Institution, Capitalism, and the Avant-garde become characters dancing together on stage.
The installation riffs off of two Surrealist artists: André Breton in his noteworthy diatribe “Away with Miserabilism” (1956), which questions a sense of safety and complacency through a consumerist and capitalist culture that in reality masks an individual’s dulled misery and René Magritte in his iconic painting “Treachery of Images” (1929) where he paints a pipe along with the text “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, questioning the oppressive conventions of language and more broadly of the bourgeoisie.
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