SNACKLANDIA (2012)
Snacklandia is a large scale collage work of snacks and beverage wrappers representing a naive landscape. I made the work originally as a billboard set for the performance of Appalachian Spring by Shua Group during a dance residency at Rutgers University. The new dance was commissioned by the Bay Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. The director Jed Gaylin had a vision of a new dance for this American icon. The music was originally composed for the iconic dance by Martha Graham.
I wanted to contrast with the big music and the big country and its values back then and fastforward to today's world. So I made a plastic landscape for this dance. I asked the Rutgers students to collect the wrappers in the cafeteria of the University.
I made later a smaller version which was displayed at Shuaspace with a print out of a research on all the ingredients found in the products.
Snacklandia is a literal landscape of products that surrounds our life and that we chose to buy. The catchy colorful and shiny envelopes to the junk food are beautiful when assemble together but scary when you google their ingredients.
AWARDS: Ready or Not 2014 New Jersey Arts Biennial at the Newark Museum.
I wanted to contrast with the big music and the big country and its values back then and fastforward to today's world. So I made a plastic landscape for this dance. I asked the Rutgers students to collect the wrappers in the cafeteria of the University.
I made later a smaller version which was displayed at Shuaspace with a print out of a research on all the ingredients found in the products.
Snacklandia is a literal landscape of products that surrounds our life and that we chose to buy. The catchy colorful and shiny envelopes to the junk food are beautiful when assemble together but scary when you google their ingredients.
AWARDS: Ready or Not 2014 New Jersey Arts Biennial at the Newark Museum.
