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escape(!)

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escape(!)

2015

Straws, frozen pizza packaging, pickle scoop, prosecco lid, toothpicks, pizza saver, fruit bowl, disposable coffee cup, light, string

escape! by Elke Finkenauer, with El Refri at Govanhill Baths, takes form as a tiny tropical island - a deck-chair under a palm tree on a white sand beach at sunset - made from a disposable coffee cup, a prosecco lid, a pickle scoop, packaging from a frozen pizza, transluscent drinking straws, toothpicks, a pizza saver, and a wire fruit bowl. Presented in a mini-fridge, in an empty Victorian swimming pool, in the ice-cold Glasgow winter, this work riffs on escapism through food, beverages and consumption, offering a place of escape that can only be inhabited with the mind.