'After Party' by Megan Kenyatta White

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By Signature Art Prize 2025
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

40 × 40 × 20 cm

Materials:

Ceramics

Primary Medium:

Sculpture

Small
2023
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"The piece is an element of the installation ‘After Party’, a mixed media installation, focusing on multiple instances, building a story of consequences. My work builds on the themes of the event and juxtaposition of perception and material. My installation displayed an event familiar to most of the audience – cheap, manufactured, throwaway items bought for one day have been made permanent by pausing them in the moment. The kitsch culture of plastic and the disposable creating sudden temporary happiness. The items do not make a difference in our lives but the sight of them reminds us of the instance and the temporary joy, by freezing these objects in time does it change meaning and make the party no longer an event but something else? The balloon is made in ceramic, its heaviness in juxtaposition with the properties of air and lightness. The celebration is over, and the balloon deflated, but there is a permanence in its current form, questioning the meaning of its creation. The shiny reflective chrome expresses joy and playfulness, but as a permanent sculpture it reflects like a broken mirror a distorted reality."

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