That Girl Who Changed Her Name

That Girl Who Changed Her Name (2015) by Kevin Abosch // CORPORA Between 2009 and 2017 I used potatoes in my photographic work to pose ontological questions I had about my own being. This was exemplified with Potato #345 (2010), pulled from the earth and covered in dirt before being immortalised; I challenged myself and others to see themselves in the work. In 2010 I began to gild potatoes, short-circuiting the philosopher’s stone for the sake of superficial adoration. My photographic works of gilt potatoes communicate with light in a way the natural potatoes don’t, and when in proximity to one another, do so through very subtle reflection. The potatoes in my work recall celestial bodies, ...View all