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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

Emily
Whynott

Suppertime explores the underlying tensions at a refined family dinner. The conduct is inelegant, though the mountains of appetizing cardboard food and expensive cutlery suggest that the guests should be having an excellent time. Rather than conceal their emotions, the figures are at each others’ throats. The lavish food may look appealing, but it is made of and propped up with shoddy construction and cardboard. The feast is tasteless and the precarious materials used to construct the guests, food, and furniture are in various states of decay. I am interested in how people come together over food, and what emotional baggage we might drop before sitting at the table in the name of politeness.



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Installation of a group of people around a dinner table

Suppertime

Cardboard, foam, plaster, tempera paint, glue, tape, wood
10’ x 6’ x 10’


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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.

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Installation sculpture of a group of people sitting around a dinner table.