l’embarras du choix consists of three similar sculptural objects presented simultaneously, staged in a shop or showroom-like setting. Each object features a pierced silicone nipple encased in transparent pink-tinted resin and placed on a white pedestal of varying scale.
The work examines how desire, intimacy, and the body are transformed into consumable units.
The silicone nipple carries connotations of affect and eroticism, but through casting and resin it becomes immobilized and preserved. Piercings suggest individuality, while serial presentation neutralizes it. Desire is neither celebrated nor censored, but archived.
The dried flowers introduce an exhausted form of care. Traditionally associated with vitality, affection, or mourning, they function here as styling devices: care reduced to decoration. They point to tenderness after usefulness has expired.
The installation aligns with postmodern critiques of consumption and simulation, notably those articulated by Jean Baudrillard. Rather than spectacle, the work presents a quiet economic structure in which the body appears as merchandise and choice as ritual.