Taroop & Glabel

Condensé

Condensé by Taroop & Glabel is a venalyn drawing on plywood that depicts a pink substance oozing out of a tube into the shape of a brain in the same color. The simple drawing offers up multiple interpretations that comment on consumption and the role that mass media and advertising play in capitalist economic infrastructure. At each look, the pink substance shifts between a gestural rendering of the human brain and a glob of paint, a wad of gum, other bodily organs, sexual innuendos, or an abstract mass. Notably, the hand needed to squeeze the tube to produce this accretion is intentionally not pictured in the composition, generating further questions about who’s wielding the substance. As in much of Taroop & Glabel’s work, certitudes are corrupted and comforts are reconstructed, becoming purposefully ridiculous, but no more so than the western advertising strategies the group seeks to critique.