Karine Giboulo
All You Can Eat
September 5–October 4, 2008

Karine Giboulo is influenced by blunt subject matter and everyday life as depicted in the media. In her latest mixed-media installation consisting of multiple ink and watercolour drawings, paintings, and mixed-media sculpture that ‘house’ her (re)interpreted narratives, Giboulo presents an ironic and humorous reality underscoring the fragile state of the human condition.

All You Can Eat refers to our seemingly bottomless appetite for consumer goods of all sorts.

This is represented in the installation by the production and consumption of food.

The effect of overconsumption can be seen on a pair of obese groundhogs gorging themselves on “all you can eat” ribs and wings in a sports bar. The finely sculpted scenes are colourful and contain humour but are also a serious commentary on our rampant consumerism, personified in the installation by the gluttonous groundhogs.