Vienna Pighin
Single Use Functioning House Key
Toronto, Canada: ESA, 2017
5 x 2 cm.
Edition size unknown
This multiple - made when the artist was attending Etobicoke School of the Arts, a celebrated arts high school in the Toronto suburbs - consists of a resin cast replica of her own personal house-key, in the home where she lives with her parents and siblings.
The accompanying key chain identifies the title, which suggests both a warm, welcoming gesture, and perhaps a bit of a sinister trap (particularly knowing her other work, which ranges from an oversized slap stick to temporary knuckledusters, all dealing with themes of violence).
The title supports the latter reading, with perhaps the suggestion that the key itself could sustain more than one use, but that the user wouldn't have the opportunity.
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