Video: Cotton candy room. Edible installation by Jennifer Rubell
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In our understanding, a room with soft walls is designed to accommodate violent people with mental disorders. But here's a New York artist Jennifer Rubell created such a room as an art object. Moreover, its walls are upholstered not with soft felt, but with cotton candy.
Jennifer Rubell is a fairly well-known artist who has made a name for herself by creating rather unusual installations. Of course, many people create art objects from food. An example is an initiative called Canstruction, which is a canned sculpture that will later be donated to the poor and homeless.
But Jennifer Rubell creates her installations precisely to eat them, not to admire them. Moreover, the process of eating them is part of the author's artistic intention. For example, last year this artist put on a pop art exhibition called Icons with a huge edible bust of Andy Warhol in the middle of the room, which, of course, was eaten by the visitors of this event in a matter of hours.
Well, more recently, Jennifer Rubell was noted for the creation of the installation "Padded Cell" ("Soft room"), which is a wooden pavilion measuring 2.5 by 5 meters, the inner walls of which are upholstered with cotton candy. In total, the artist needed 1600 packs of this delicacy to cover the four walls, the front door and the ceiling.
And on the same day, when work on the installation was completed, Jennifer invited a bunch of guests here to a party in Russian style (apparently, the surname or pseudonym Rubell comes from the word “ruble”). Guests of this event drank, had fun, and from time to time I kiss to the walls of the pavilion to bite off some cotton candy from them. All of them, of course, did not eat, but took a good bite, making the room look very unpresentable. However, this is exactly what the author of the "Padded Cell" installation was trying to achieve.
In general, the party was a success, and Jennifer Rubell herself is already thinking about what kind of new edible installation to build.
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