Superglue, a tool known for its convenience, versatility, and ease of use, is often intentionally concealed. We regard it as dependent on other objects and try to hide it, but superglue asserts its presence, demanding attention. It’s time to reassess superglue’s materiality, aesthetics, and power.
1: Super Glue Colection-Ring03/Brooch01/Bracelet07
Superglue is a commonly used tool to connect objects.It is convenient, versatile, accessible, and easy to apply. Despite superglue’s merits, we purposefully choose to deny and conceal its presence, creating a mythic quality of invisibility. It appears in our consciousness divorced from color and form, but in reality, it is visually white and opaque in a lasting solid state. We think that superglue must be in relation to other objects and does not exist as an independent entity. We intentionally place it in discrete locations and try to remove all its visible evidence. It does not deserve to be seen! But here, superglue refuses to be ignored and takes on its own agency. It occupies the center stage.It flows,it explodes, and it devours! Let us reevaluate superglue and confront its materiality, aesthetics, and power.
