Venue
Ruskin Gallery
Starts
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Ends
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Address
Cambridge School of Art Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge CB1 1PT
Location
South East England
Organiser
Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

 

I am what I consume, I am an advert for the commodities I consume.

‘Consume’ describes the act of eating as well as purchasing a commodity. The still-life table expresses this dual meaning because the objects on display are edible and indicate an individual’s social position through the ability to buy prestigious objects. Woolley views the still-life table as a portrait of a particular type of consumer. This allows her to view the objects in still-life as an expression of a relation between consumer, commodity, and society. The exhibition encompasses a variety of approaches to the genre to explore the contradictions of capitalism.