Gallery Girl's Gesamtkunstwerk Lifestyle Transformation Through Contemporary Art Objects

Gallery Girl declares her New Year's resolution to transform her entire existence into a Gesamtkunstwerk, drawing inspiration from artists like Gilbert and George and Matthew Barney's character from Cremaster 3. She plans to replace her Valentino bag with Martin Soto Climent's leather purse-within-purse creation called Desire, noting the Mexican artist's visceral approach. For headwear, she seeks a paper mask from Eko Nugroho's exhibition We Are What We Mask, particularly drawn to one proclaiming 'Faith in Shopping'. Her Mayfair dining room will undergo changes, swapping Jasper Conran for Wedgwood crockery for Aaron Angell's dystopic glazed stoneware and replacing a Faudet-Harrison Crosscut table with Michaela Meise's Chelsea Kramer table-desk artwork recently shown at Johann König's gallery. She intends to incorporate bookshelves from Kader Attia's installation Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob's Ladder at Whitechapel Gallery, connecting such art furniture to relational aesthetics. To complete her transformation, she'll use David Evans' edited book The Art of Walking: a field guide to turn her stroll to Mount Street Deli into artistic practice, ultimately becoming art herself while wearing Nugroho's mask and carrying Soto Climent's purse.