The hopes and dreams of the workers as they wandered home from the bar
Disneyland Paris•Jul 20, 2025 — Aug 17, 2025
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I used to ask people “Where’s the local glitter factory?” and no one could ever tell me. I found out modern glitter was perfected on a cattle farm in New Jersey in 1934. Glitter, kilo for kilo, is a drug-like commodity. You can go to one city, buy two kilos of glitter for the same price as a tiny vial somewhere else. It has a very uneven commodity status. I can’t tell you if people are happy in glitter factories, whether glitter factories are organised collectively or a “Glitter Board” regulates them.
I have used it in my work as a constant. My use of glitter exposes certain production complications along with an acknowledgement of modernist art history. The earliest works involved me cleaning the floor with glitter mixed with whisky or vodka. Once you have done this you can see where the floor has been cleaned and labour is exposed. The works are a cumulative negative: so if cleaning is a reductive act, then cleaning with glitter is an...More
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The hopes and dreams of the workers as they wandered home from the bar
Disneyland Paris•Jul 20, 2025 — Aug 17, 2025
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I used to ask people “Where’s the local glitter factory?” and no one could ever tell me. I found out modern glitter was perfected on a cattle farm in New Jersey in 1934. Glitter, kilo for kilo, is a drug-like commodity. You can go to one city, buy two kilos of glitter for the same price as a tiny vial somewhere else. It has a very uneven commodity status. I can’t tell you if people are happy in glitter factories, whether glitter factories are organised collectively or a “Glitter Board” regulates them.
I have used it in my work as a constant. My use of glitter exposes certain production complications along with an acknowledgement of modernist art history. The earliest works involved me cleaning the floor with glitter mixed with whisky or vodka. Once you have done this you can see where the floor has been cleaned and labour is exposed. The works are a cumulative negative: so if cleaning is a reductive act, then cleaning with glitter is an...More
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