Trojan Horse, The Works Art & Design Festival, Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) 2024

The large-scale installation incorporates a multitude of objects removed from their usual context to explore the relationship between individuals and their possessions. The eruption of brightly colored plastic bursts from two shipping containers, confronting viewers with an excessive, seemingly unstable composition which succeeds in creating a dialogue between consumerism and globalization.

The work with its vivid colors is quickly perceived as seducing and playful. However, there is something disturbing about it, as if it held a potential threat. In a parodic fashion, the sheer number of chairs and other objects in the installation accentuates the excessiveness of capitalist-driven production, pervasiveness of consumption, and people’s complicity with this economic system through their actions.