Grayson Perry
Piggy Bank
London, UK: Serpentine Gallery, 2017
9 x 21 x 9 cm.
Open and unlimited edition
From the 8th of June to the 10th of September, 2017, the Serpentine presented The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!, a show of new work by Grayson Perry, touching on themes such as popularity and art, masculinity, and the broader cultural landscape.
At the entrance to the exhibition was a ceramic piggy bank with multiple coin slots, each named for a particular aspect of society. Young, Female, Urban, Black, Us or Them appear on one side of the pig, and Old, Right, Rural, Poor or Leave on the other. [see below].
The title for the work, Long Pig, reportedly refers to a term for human meat used in some Polynesian cultures that once practised cannibalism in the past, perhaps raising the question of who will swallow whom?
The open edition “little pig” was released at the same time, and later reissued to the celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the gallery. It consists of a blue and white glazed ceramic piggy bank with a rubber stopper, packaged in grey cardboard box.
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