Architectural Digest, 2023

Dark chocolate, edible gold dust, stainless steel refrigerator, Scheele’s green paint

206 x 127 x 84 cm

Taoyuan International Art Prize, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taoyuan, Taiwan​​

Presented at the Taoyuan International Art Prize in Taiwan, Architectural Digest features chocolate recreations of classical columns housed inside an industrial refrigerator. The public is invited to eat the sculptures, gradually eroding Western symbols of permanence, taste, and cultural authority. The surrounding walls are painted in Scheele’s green, a poisonous arsenic-based pigment popular among the European elite in the 18th and 19th centuries, often found in ornate Victorian wallpaper. Mimicking the visual language of luxury lifestyle media — glossy, curated, aspirational — the installation reflects on how power is packaged, consumed, and metabolized through architecture, class, and design.