The work consists of a black resin cast containing human pubic hair, placed inside an opaque black box and presented on a white plinth bearing the instruction Do not lick.
At first glance, the object resists identification. The box functions as a barrier to perception, withholding information and inviting projection. Meaning is suspended rather than revealed.
When the viewer eventually recognizes the material inside as pubic hair, this knowledge fails to resolve the work. The hair is immobilized and neutralized by resin, stripped of tactility, smell, and intimacy. What remains is a preserved trace of the body, detached from both desire and use.
The instruction Do not lick introduces a bodily relation that is neither natural nor possible. It prohibits an act that is socially implausible and materially impossible, producing a paradoxical command without a viable subject. The text fabricates transgression where none existed, exposing how language can generate desire, taboo, and control independently of action.
The work operates in the gap between perception, knowledge, and instruction. It stages a confusion that cannot be resolved through interpretation or behavior, leaving the viewer suspended between curiosity, repulsion, and absurdity.