architectural digest, 2023

gilded chocolate, refrigerator,

scheele’s green paint

taoyuan museum of fine arts, taiwan

 

 

Architectural Digest, presented at the Taoyuan International

Art Prize in Taiwan, is a project that proposes a series of ornamental architecture and classical columns casted in dark chocolate and edible glitter. It imagines untouchable and permanent structures as fragile and obsolete, kept in refrigerators and available for the public to take. The fridge reads, in mandarin, “please make your selection before opening”, playing with the idea of choosing a dessert at a bakery or a supermarket, further shifting the value and meaning of a power structure and its symbolism. The walls

are painted in Scheele’s green referencing an iconic

arsenic-based pigment often found in Victorian wallpaper

and very popular among the elite.