“Lobsters in the sea, its climbed the economic ladder, rising
from the ocean’s depths, food for poor people and prisoners, all
the way to a fancy restaurant, portraying high-class toxic
hierarchies. But what have the Lobsters felt? They’ve been
boiled and cut from their back to the tip of their tail they’ve
been snapped and cracked, squished and licked, sucked from their
strong shell transformed into the idea of hedonism and
affluence.”
'Lobster and shrimp on my plate, I need my pockets so fat they
inflate' is a durational project that started three years ago and
delves into the culture and changing economy associated with
lobsters. In the third showcase of their ongoing project at
Swimming Pool, artists Robin Phoenix Whitehouse (UK) and
Todor Rabadzhiyski (BG) are looking at how the Lobster has been
reinvented through the ages, considering how marketing has
portrayed a certain image of the Lobster that is becoming an
analogy for the current time.
