A glossy black jewelry bust presents a necklace as an object of desire. Yet instead of precious stones, the pendant contains artificial teeth, carefully cast in transparent resin. The body has vanished, but its simulacrum gleams.
The work refers to Jean Baudrillard’s idea of la revanche de l’objet: the moment when objects withdraw from the use and meaning values once assigned to them by humans, and assume their own symbolic logic, increasingly directing our thought, our existence, and our identity. The teeth — signs of vitality, beauty, and aggression — here become mere surface, image, fetish. Their glossy white perfection further reflects the contemporary obsession with unattainable eternal youth and imperishable beauty in a commodified world.
They seem to gaze back, exposing the viewer’s own fascination with the false, the shiny, the seemingly real. The white pedestal serves as a neutral stage for a quiet rebellion: the triumph of the object over the human, of appearance over truth.