In a former American Express building on Edward Street, Brighton, artist Felicity Hammond has constructed a showroom for luxury living: melted orange resin, resembling outstretched slithers of prosciutto ham, slides down pale blue stairs; while shiny marbled slabs offset the verdant leaves of house plants. It’s a world we recognise by its parts – the sleek surfaces and semiotics of middlebrow living – rather than as a whole. As Hammond explains, it’s a world that lies…
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