Marlo Yarlo: Pleasure Until Forever / Just Relax
Window Exhibition
October 129, 2014
Opening: Wednesday October 1, 710pm
Objects never exhaust themselves in the function they serve, and in this excess of presence they take on their signification of prestige. They no longer designate the world, but rather the being and social rank of their possessor.
Jean Baudrillard
If the products we purchase are not just objects but also a language that signifies a sense of who we are and what we desire to be, then what happens when the brand itself explicitly communicates the psychological production of self-identity and the simulation of happiness?
Marlo Yarlo, a Toronto-based artist, explores the representation and function of the image related to consumer capitalism and materialism.
