Black Friday
For SALE / KOOS galerii
/ Hologram-painted Nuceron molded plastic, fiberglass, gold-plated silver /
Measures 1,2 x 0,5 x h1,6 meters
Edition 1 / 3-st, plus 1 AP
Authors Olive Soomets ja Argo Männik
2024
Fashionable, Seasonal, Mother’s Day Special, Christmas Special, Special Release, Special Offer, New Model, Fits Better, Made Just For You, You Don’t Want To Miss It, Best Price, Today Only, Here Only, Want Bigger, Want Newer, Want Too, Want More, do you already have it, you can get it cheap, this line can be continued endlessly.
Final sale, clearance sale, best price, discount price, special price, price rally, crazy days, price bomb, price bang, three for one price, free coffee, win a TV, prices down, prices melting, etc. – one end of “Black Friday”.
The work critical of the consumer society “Black Friday” depicts a gluttonous and trendy monkey metaphorically standing on an ordinary shipment. He has received the courier packages and is ready to eagerly open them when suddenly a deus ex machina – a golden mudfly – falls from the sky on the monkey’s nose. The focus changes. The monkey freezes. There is silence and a vacuum, which forces him to self-examine through a hyper-realistic curved mirror: “We adorn ourselves, but with what?! Mmmh, the whole thing stinks, but the flies are scared away, luckily, and you get used to the accompanying smell, luckily.”