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Gili Tal, Untitled (Small Fridge), 2023

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Inkjet print, clip frame
8.27 x 11.42 (21 x 29 cm)
Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.
Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne

Starting with a show in 2015, Gili Tal has since produced a series of works comprising commercial glass-door display fridges. The fridges are filled to various degrees, mostly with drinks – cans and bottles etc. Some are better stocked than others. Mimicking retail strategies poised to convey bounty – products pushed to the front of shelves, labels facing forward – some of the fridges mobilise their few remaining products to conceal the existence of a deep lack. Other fridges blur the gap between use and exchange, mixing up items imagined for sale to customers with those for consumption, or just storage, by supposed staff on shifts. With their innate ‘display’ proviso, the fridges become a way of testing how far this display function can hold and still affectively conceal all the rest from habituated readings, like another kind of glaze. Each fridge’s particular constellation evolves over time, with the artist adding and removing items, turning them around, knocking them over, until an arrangement is arrived at that tells the story she wants. Whilst this photo was taken during such a process, it was also selected because it creates a new story in itself, a new small fridge, to some degree.


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