Raster, Warsaw
Slavs and Tatars
Noblesse Oblige (pumpkin seeds), 2019
Woolen yarn
96 × 45 inches
Shipping Location: Warsaw, Poland
A fully functional wool carpet reveals the collective's interest in both high and low, high-brow ideologies and low-brow media. In that vein, roasted pumpkin seeds are a staple snack, shared...
A fully functional wool carpet reveals the collective's interest in both high and low, high-brow ideologies and low-brow media. In that vein, roasted pumpkin seeds are a staple snack, shared across the SlavicTurkic peoples from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Like the wheat of Wheat Mollah, the pumpkin seed became a symbol of proletariat or rather, its 21st century successor, the précariat. The newspaper headline reads: “Noblesse oblige, précariat exige” – nobility obliges, precariat requires.