Objet à consommer

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2025

40cm x 50cm

Objet à consommer is a sculptural installation that stages intimacy according to the logic of retail display. A solar-powered rotating platform presents a silicone nipple with piercing, cast in transparent resin, endlessly turning atop a glass serving dish. Artificial flowers surround the object, accompanied by a lollipop — signs of care, seduction, and regressive desire. The work examines how, within contemporary sign economies, the body is no longer encountered as proximity or presence, but as a visual commodity. Through continuous rotation, the object performs its own display autonomously, detached from any acting subject. Desire is not fulfilled but endlessly circulated. Meaning is not revealed, but proliferated. The hyper-aestheticized presentation refers to the aggressive surplus of symbols and affects characteristic of consumer culture, where even critique must adopt the form of merchandise. The flowers and candy do not function as decoration but as excessive signs, generating an overabundance of meaning that does not conceal emptiness but exposes it. Objet à consommer confronts the viewer with a mechanical form of seduction in which intimacy, care, and affect are severed from human relations and reduced to circulating signs without origin or resolution.

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