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A Feast For The Eyes

Past exhibition
5 - 30 Jul 2024
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Olivia Sterling, You Can’t Dance At Two Weddings, 2024

Olivia Sterling

You Can’t Dance At Two Weddings, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 120 cm
59 x 47 1/4 in
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A love triangle appears inside of a tavern. The woman in the blue dress glances over at the waitress who has narrowly missed the banana peel on the floor. Her...
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A love triangle appears inside of a tavern. The woman in the blue dress glances over at the waitress who has narrowly missed the banana peel on the floor. Her date hides behind a menu, maybe the thrower of the banana - this may be the case because he seems to be wearing clown shoes, invoking comedy. I am becoming interested in the phallic nature of the food that I have been painting recently - eclairs, sausages and now bananas. Bananas are the epitome of slapstick comedy; slipping on a banana peel which is in itself absurd and implies a kind of harmless harm as well. Harmless harm because when someone falls on a banana skin we laugh (maybe we laugh) because it is an unexpected action, as we are not supposed to fall over ever, but it is also one where we know that the slipper isn't in any actual harm, as it is often an exaggerated fall, played for laughs. We maybe would not laugh if we knew this person was getting hurt. Therefore, harmless harm - we don't focus on the pain as the result of falling but the fall itself. This can be related to love and dating - which is also harmless harm - and we can see that the banana could be a symbol of falling itself - whether physically falling or falling in love. So the banana, if thrown intentionally, could be a kind of trap.
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