set menu is a series of paper sculptures (originally part of a larger installation) which extends my project on the efficiency/dysfunction balance into the realm of Tokyo.
The title referenced the restaurant displays in Japan, which are fabricated out of plastic to look more real than the real thing.
"I also like the associations which paper has here, equally perfectionist, to traditional origami and contemporary office
stationary."
The city is a perfect model of a constructed world, down to its prolific plastic food displays outside restaurants, made to look more real than the real thing.
set menu takes the humble pot plant as a springboard to explore this tendency towards the streamlined in production and replication, perhaps pointing to where obsession and excess collide with humour.
My art practice is informed by the precarious balance in contemporary society between efficiency and dysfunction. My installations often incorporate these two oppositional elements working in tandem, through the types of objects selected and the working processes employed. Often referencing peripheral objects, my installations involve laborious processes that mimic an efficiency-driven workplace environment. As contemporary society moves towards an increasingly efficient and streamlined work ethic, the objects that surround us are naturally streamlined in turn. An exploration of the hyper-reality of this
"constructed world" is at the centre of my practice.
Carly Fischer, 2005
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