PATRICIA  JACOMELLA  BONOLA

UNSELECTED CHOICE  2021

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Installation

paper, net, label

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ArtBox Thalwil

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Unselected Choice takes the form of a vending machine that offers capsules one cannot choose. Through this simple but potent inversion, the installation comments on the illusion of choice within consumer culture and the contrasting lack of agency experienced by many women in the Global South.

The work exposes the performative emptiness of abundance, where freedom is simulated through overproduction. By denying the act of selection, Jacomella Bonola transforms an everyday object into a philosophical provocation, an indictment of systems that equate consumption with empowerment.

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Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola

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