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Max Petts | Cookie - Bird - Alphabet (once it's gone it's gone - edible non food - these luxury goods are killing me but I just can't get enough)

£6,013.80

Cookie - Bird - Alphabet (once it's gone it's gone - edible non food - these luxury goods are killing me but I just can't get enough)

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Belgian Milk Chocolate Chunks (28%) (Sugar, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Salted Butter (Butter (Cows' Milk), Salt), Water, Humectant: Vegetable Glycerine; Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Wheat Flour, Coconut Oil, Raising Agents: Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate; Molasses, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Bronze

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2025

£6,013.80 GBP

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The central prop in the exhibition, Cookie - Bird - Alphabet is a stack of ultra processed supermarket bought cookies secured upon a bronze armature: a semi-polished cast of a 3d printed replica of Constantin Brancusi’s iconic bronze work Bird in Space. It changes as the exhibition unfolds, entering a performative cycle of decay and refreshment. This absurd act prioritises the essential structural support required for the work to function, and explores the tensions between the seen and unseen, mass culture and art, ‘real’ things and copies, difficulty and ease. This tension brings about an ambiguity of the material agency and its reference to environment, histories, trust and the resulting facts and/or fictions. 

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Max Petts | Cookie - Bird - Alphabet (once it's gone it's gone - edible non food - these luxury goods are killing me but I just can't get enough)

£6,013.80

Cookie - Bird - Alphabet (once it's gone it's gone - edible non food - these luxury goods are killing me but I just can't get enough)

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Belgian Milk Chocolate Chunks (28%) (Sugar, Whole Cows' Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring), Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Salted Butter (Butter (Cows' Milk), Salt), Water, Humectant: Vegetable Glycerine; Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Wheat Flour, Coconut Oil, Raising Agents: Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate; Molasses, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Bronze

Dimensions variable…

2025

£6,013.80 GBP

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The central prop in the exhibition, Cookie - Bird - Alphabet is a stack of ultra processed supermarket bought cookies secured upon a bronze armature: a semi-polished cast of a 3d printed replica of Constantin Brancusi’s iconic bronze work Bird in Space. It changes as the exhibition unfolds, entering a performative cycle of decay and refreshment. This absurd act prioritises the essential structural support required for the work to function, and explores the tensions between the seen and unseen, mass culture and art, ‘real’ things and copies, difficulty and ease. This tension brings about an ambiguity of the material agency and its reference to environment, histories, trust and the resulting facts and/or fictions. 

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  • Max Petts lives and works in London. They graduated from the Goldsmiths MFA in 2023 and from Chelsea College of Art in 2012. 

    Their practice deals with the complexity of looking and making while seeking to examine their place in the world and the specific set of privileges and penalties they have inherited. Working across disciplines (drawing, painting, writing, finding) they focus on the interplay of images and objects and the relationships that allow meaning to develop. Relationships between bodies and materials, facts and fictions. They consider their practice as an awareness building exercise; a way to posit contradictions.

  • 2019 - 2023 Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA Fine Art

    2009 - 2012 Chelsea College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art

    Selected shows:

    2025 Proscenium, Xxijra Hii, London, UK (Solo)

    2022 flowers (w/ Robert Orr) - Xxijra Hii, London, UK (Duo)

    2025 Salon Sauvage, Gnossienne Gallery, London, UK (Forthcoming group show)

    2023 This be the verse, Xxijra Hii, London, UK (Group), Interlude, Kupfer, London, UK (Group), Baggage Claim, Staffordshire St, London, UK, 2022 Present Tense, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, London, UK, 2021 MAXWORLD presents: Smokey, Merle and friends..., 310 New Cross Road, London, UK, 2020 Goldsmiths, Department of Eagles, Online, 2019 You, Me and Everybody Else, Oneroom Gallery, London, UK, 2016 My Own Private Idaho, Charlton Gallery, London, UK.