Sasha Bowles

PINEAPPLE SUGARCUBE

Trace Elements | 1971 - Exhibition, curated by Rosalind Davis at The Factory Project

Pineapple Sugarcube installation

Pineapple Sugarcube Installation, a site specific installation made in response to the Tate and Lyle factory and Silvertown location.

Trace Elements | 1971

Exhibited artists; Fabio Almeida, Hermione Allsopp, Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Richard Perry, Lex Shute, Lisa Traxler, and Andrea V Wright

The themes that bring these artists together is the creation of transformative and experiential works within sculpture, painting and installation, working with metamorphosis with regards to the inherent qualities of materiality, texture, theatre, illusion, alternate worlds, and environments. Activating the space and architecture by making work that is responsive to a particular context.

Pineapple Sugarcube, plays with the theatricality of wealth – a façade of tropes, symbols and pomposity. Using images from stately homes and carved pineapples Sasha’s 4 metres high; paper, cardboard and tape installation, Pineapple Sugarcube was fabricated in Silvertown inside a disused Tate and Lyle warehouse. Silvertown’s wealth grew from the revenue of the importation of exotic pineapples in the 18th century. So sought after, the pineapple became a symbol of wealth, luxury and nobility and importance. Their facsimiles carved in stone can be found on entrances and on the pinnacles of buildings throughout England. Worth thousands of pounds they were too expensive to eat and were paraded from event to event until rotten. A symbolic showy façade between the pompous nobility, serving no purpose other than ostentatious extravagance.