Are these artworks a delicious bite out of capitalism? Or are they cake?

Investigating what he calls “capitalist fear mitigation”, Alexander repurposes extra-human sensory experiences of technologies like night vision and thermal imaging, aesthetics that instantly recall the internet’s “military death-cam footage”. Then, he encases them inside the otherwise harmless shop-bought sheet cake, creating an unsettling contradiction – it normalises the quiet but terrific violence of our media’s

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