Includes:
Ruffles Font (2019)
Rococo Blush Fish Head Tureen (2019)
Salmon Bottom Feed Fish Head Tureen (2019)
Gulper Fish Head Tureen (2019)
Salmon Heel (2019)

Vincent van Velsen:

“The woman who drinks excessively can seem an ultimate act of transgression, behaving in an unruly and unmediated way which is at odds with socially acceptable representations of the feminine.” declared Zoe Williams in an interview. It’s the sinful things that make life fun. Especially in the context of the Dutch Protestant North, where every manifestation of excess is regarded as undesirable. Even more so for women, who are not supposed to act dishonorably and should behave politely. Not Zoe Williams. Her bacchanalian performances feature an abundance of food. Piled, filled and spilled, looking like a comic strip version of a medieval dinner. There is lots of it, it is greasy, it drips, and it smells. However, nothing is consumed, only touched, used, smeared, swapped and consumed. It’s precisely the lack of purpose which she emphasizes, the luxurious, superfluous but oh-so pleasurable aspect that we so often are ashamed of – or that we’ve been taught to feel ashamed of: physicality and the pleasurable activities in life. The sculpture versions are loud in their colors, less grandiose and transient, but no less abundant.