Link: MAKE: Blog: 7,200 bananas.
"Things I have learned in my life so far" - a new installation by SS.
The ordinary is made extraordinary by scale and repetition, and given a twist by the ineluctable transformation of decay. It is a gesture of pointless waste, a vacuous symbol of entropic tendencies in 21C art? A poignant reminder that analogue copies are not pristine, immutable and extemporaneous? Or just a skip-load of 'nanas nailed to the wall?
If he had drawn faces on them I would have been really impressed.