Video: Deep-fried gadgets. Consumer Culture by Henry Hargreaves
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No wonder the word "consumption" can refer to both the shopping process and the process of eating food. It is this fact that the American artist decided to use in his work. Henry Hargreaves … He created a series of amazing photos with the title Deep-fried gadgets.
Several years ago, we on the site Kulturologiya. Ru talked about the work of the artist Michael Tompert, or rather, to be more specific, about his project Apple Destroyed Products, in which the author destroys Apple products in every possible way - throws them from a height, hits her with hammers, shoots her with a firearm. Henry Hargreaves carries out a similar activity. But he bakes "apple" gadgets in the oven.
True, unlike Tompert, Hargreaves does not destroy real Apple gadgets, but their paper copies. But he does it with great inspiration. Henry covers his "apple" blanks with dough and sends them in this form in the oven. After a while, he takes out his crafts, which have turned into works of art from the Deep-fried Gadgets series in a matter of minutes of heat treatment.
In this clever way, Henry Hargreaves is trying to illustrate the essence of modern consumer culture, constantly striving for something fried. New gadgets and devices appear on sale in order to be considered obsolete in six months. And buyers, who quite recently exalted them to the skies, quickly forget their former "favorites", preferring newer models of devices.
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