Rubén Grilo
Mongrels, 2019Air-brushed and hand-painted polyurethane cast plastic elements mounted on a brushed stainless steel trayeach: 179 × 83 × 4.5 cm ( × 32 11⁄16 × 1 25⁄32 inches)
(...) chocolate seems designed to permanently satisfy an unsatisfied desire. It's also a devious substance: the result of various mixtures which, nevertheless, continually evoke the ghost of a supposed purity tied to the fiction of artisanry. When refashioned into a coin, chocolate evokes not only a certain contemporary cult status but also its own past as a material associated with economic trade, as well as its historical ties to the social elite.
