Selma Gültoprak

Used chock hard chrome plated, 40 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm / Under New Management

The manufacturing industry distinguishes between decorative and functional electroplating: decorative electroplating refers to the chrome plating of steel furniture, for example, whilst the purpose of functional electroplating is the prevention of corrosion. Both of these properties are united for I want you to find something which is certain – a wheel chock, deformed, broken, useless, yet it appears almost perfect. One can imagine corrosion eating away at the metal under its immaculate surface, but through its new coat, the corrosion has been stopped in its tracks. Time has been stopped, its purpose invalidated. Abrogating time, alienated from its destiny, the wedge is pretending something.

Text Corina Hein