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| This is what 60,000 bottles of boiled down Coca-Cola looks like |
One piece of art work at M+ that I saw yesterday was quite arresting -- a glass box that looked like it had black dirt in it.
It's called Coca-Cola Project (Extraction) by Chinese artist He Xiangyu.
This dirt is actually residue that remains after boiling down 60,000 bottles of Coca-Cola over a charcoal fire for more than a year.
As the description says, "He turns the symbol of desirable cosmopolitan life in 1990s China into completely unrecognisable and even toxic matter."
It goes on to say that the work highlights the conspicuousness of consumption, thus asking if this is what we really want.
How one acquires 60,000 bottles of Coke is not only costly but where do you store them all, and boiling them down sounds like it was a smelly venture too...
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