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Creative - your network for contemporary culture :: Rachel Maclean :: Rachel Maclean "Going Bananas!", 2010

Publié le 3 mars 2011 à 17:33 De Rachel Maclean It's curved yellow body reclines on supermarket shelves and in household fruit bowls with a gesture of cheap availability. However, unpeel it's familiar clothing and it reveals a repressed character. Existing at the intersection of banality and fantasy, the banana signifies a hunger for something beyond disenchanted civility, exposing a lust for the exotic, the 'Other', the 'Garden of Earthly Delights', promising perpetual feasting and erotic fulfilment. However we slip up on it's skin and burst out laughing. It's fantasy becomes mockery, a dancing monkey, a comic disappointment, unfamiliar with the polite world and representative of a dangerously under evolved, primitive existence, ungoverned by the regulations of the civilised world.