Supermarket

SUPERMARKET examines identity through the tension between the physical and nonphysical. The work questions where humanity resides and how much of it can be accessed through the external alone. When only the surface is offered, a sense of absence emerges, revealing howhumanity exists beyond the physical, even as much of daily interaction remains skin-deep. The exhibition includes large-scale portraiture and handmade masks that function as forms of containment and translation. Influenced by the 1970s to 1990s alternative, club, and queer culture, the work considers how identity forms through repetition, exposure, and the systems we move through daily, implicitly shaping and nourishing us. From this position, Cook steps out of concealment and into authorship.