TOASTER / LOAF, 2026

TOASTER / LOAF (2026)

Bread is so familiar as to be almost invisible, yet it is densely charged with cultural meaning. It holds biblical associations of sustenance and sacrifice, functions as a sociological marker of labour and class, and is embedded in historical narratives of scarcity, industry, and domestic routine. By isolating and re-framing the slice, Toaster/Loaf shifts bread from nutritional background to image-object: a material record of time, process, and collective habit, made available for sustained looking.

Central to the work is the act of reversal and externalisation. The toaster - an object designed to enclose, obscure, and act upon its contents - becomes a vessel for projection. What would normally sit briefly hidden inside the appliance is translated into light and projected outward. In projecting the Loaf, the work inverts the toaster’s function: rather than consuming bread, it stages its image. The internal becomes architectural, and a private, habitual action is reframed as a spatial and temporal event.

The work extends domestic ritual into the gallery space, collapsing distinctions between interior and exterior, function and contemplation, use-value and image. The toaster becomes both container and conduit - an apparatus through which the everyday is slowed down, magnified, and made visible.