“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.
