Objects: Good Girl / Good Morning Sunshine

Good Girl
2020 · Plaster, acrylic paint, approx. 27 × 44 × 26 cm
Private collection

Good Morning Sunshine
2020 · Plaster, acrylic paint, 44 × 18 × 18 cm
Private collection

In Sicily, as in beach resorts everywhere, the kiosks along the seafront sell inflatable plastic animals. I covered two of them in plaster. The plastic animals are still inside, well preserved.

What was made to float has become heavy, and a toy meant for the water is now made of a material that cannot bear it: plaster dissolves when it gets wet. Set in plaster, two mass-produced beach toys have each become one of a kind.

When I first showed them at B74 in 2020, they were still white. I painted them afterwards.

Exhibitions
2020 · Of Pears and Apples, B74, Lucerne (solo exhibition, unpainted)
2022 · Sommer im Land, Atelier R6, Steinen (with Irène Hänni and Brigitte Marty)
2024 · KISSTHEHEN art auction, Lucerne (Good Girl, sold)