PAIN and PLEASURE: Dilemma by Project COALA

Project COALA is a coalition of arts and creative professionals that aim to work across fields of knowledge and expertise.  The recent installation in the project is Dilemma. Dilemma spurts insights on polarized themes: are PAIN and PLEASURE, opposed to SEX and VIOLENCE, truly extremes and how thin is the line between TABOO and SELF-EXPRESSION? Denying any resolution of these questions, Dilemma thrusts us into a position where we oscillate between ADMIRATION and DISGUST. It is a series of clear, shaft-like objects designed and crafted by hand. From a distance, Dilemma intrigues with its transparency and apparent fragility. Yet this transparency blurs recognition of its true shape while revealing another object trapped inside the core of each piece. Dare to come closer and the extent of this ambiguity’s potency exposes itself as a phallus-shape enclosing a knife! Project COALA was founded in 2009 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.