CHOCOLATE FACTORY
- PAUL McCARTHY -
MONNAIE DE PARIS
(25 OCTOBER 2014 - 4 JANUARY 2015)
The performers run the Chocolate Factory and stock the chocolate figurines produced. Our consumer society's system of values is echoed and contrasted.
The Monnaie de Paris location stresses this idea. A building where medals and coins were minted.
We are presented with a parallel activity.
Art, chocolate, butt plugs, and Christmas.
The 'excess' of energy invested in these symbols is destined to be wasted.
The luxury and erotics presented reminds us of Georges Bataille's 'general' economy. The 'excess' is given in order to threaten, to make apparent, a system of values that refuses the idea that commodities could be surrendered without return.
