The Dolce Banana is a reflection on the strange afterlife of objects in contemporary culture.
By presenting a golden banana dripping with liquid gold, the work enters into dialogue with the lineage of modern conceptual art from Duchamp’s provocations to the infamous banana taped to a wall questioning what, today, truly makes an artwork: the gesture, the symbol, or the market that surrounds it.
In a world where a piece of fruit can become a million-dollar icon overnight, “The Dolce Banana” pushes the absurdity further: if luxury is now a surface, why not gild nature itself? If value depends on repetition, why not show the same banana three times and promise ‘more banana soon’?
The work highlights the tension between abundance and emptiness, glamour and decay.
Gold, humanity’s ultimate symbol of wealth, replaces the softness of the fruit, turning nourishment into ornament. The banana an object of everyday life, bodily, vulnerable is transformed into a fetish of capitalist desire, polished until all meaning slips away.
By borrowing the aesthetics of high-end fashion, the project questions how branding has replaced storytelling, how commodity has replaced identity, and how even the ridiculous can be worshipped when wrapped in the right typography.
“The Dolce Banana” ultimately exposes the fragile line between art, joke, luxury, and consumption, inviting the viewer to wonder:
Are we admiring the banana, the gold, or simply the idea of wanting something because everyone else wants it?
By presenting a golden banana dripping with liquid gold, the work enters into dialogue with the lineage of modern conceptual art from Duchamp’s provocations to the infamous banana taped to a wall questioning what, today, truly makes an artwork: the gesture, the symbol, or the market that surrounds it.
In a world where a piece of fruit can become a million-dollar icon overnight, “The Dolce Banana” pushes the absurdity further: if luxury is now a surface, why not gild nature itself? If value depends on repetition, why not show the same banana three times and promise ‘more banana soon’?
The work highlights the tension between abundance and emptiness, glamour and decay.
Gold, humanity’s ultimate symbol of wealth, replaces the softness of the fruit, turning nourishment into ornament. The banana an object of everyday life, bodily, vulnerable is transformed into a fetish of capitalist desire, polished until all meaning slips away.
By borrowing the aesthetics of high-end fashion, the project questions how branding has replaced storytelling, how commodity has replaced identity, and how even the ridiculous can be worshipped when wrapped in the right typography.
“The Dolce Banana” ultimately exposes the fragile line between art, joke, luxury, and consumption, inviting the viewer to wonder:
Are we admiring the banana, the gold, or simply the idea of wanting something because everyone else wants it?
More bananas soon.