Candy Skkinn

While the financial world finds it hard to imagine an alternative solution to the capitalist system, the arts denounce the great failure of Western society and endeavour to hypothesise its evolution.
Santaseveso crystallises the essence of this great delusion in her persuasive works, in colours that are both alluring and deceptive. The echo of the clear Cartesian syllogism "cogito ergo sum", distant and anachronistic, reaches the ears of the players of the consumer society. They are what they buy, and the reiterated gesture of consuming corresponds with their identity, until they are engulfed by those brands which they consider unequivocal.
The artist adds a fetishistic aspect to pop art, which often accompanies the memories of the younger generations, for whom each age is equated to a brand in vogue at that time or a cult object. While the exponents of pop art succumbed to the fascination of the consumer society, whose symbols were chosen as artistic icons, Seveso illustrates their aberration and the false promise hidden in the heart of what should par excellence sweeten our palate: candy.