Object With a Hole

The work is a caricature of a functional object. The hole situated in the centre of the vessel is so small that it is difficult to attribute any function to it. Moreover, it resembles that part of the body which it is, at the very least, inappropriate to discuss in public. On a symbolic level, it contrasts with the porcelain – a material associated with elegance and culture. It is the porcelain that brings such themes as fragility, excretion or physicality in general into the aesthetic field of vision. On a vessel that is usually filled with food, there is an image of the orifice through which the body expels it. Hidden within this confusion of functions lies an ironic commentary on the culture of control, shame and the boundaries of what we consider ‘appropriate’.