PULL! — SPEED IT UP! — ENJOY!
Pull! — Speed it up! — Enjoy! dissects the fetish status of car
components, examining how masculinity is constructed, consumed and exhausted
in contemporary culture.
Presented as a dispensing machine delivering segmented car exhaust pipes —
the “tail end” of the automobile — the work invites viewers to turn a handle,
causing an exhaust pipe to roll out. Once handled, it is slipped back into
the slot at the top.
This cycle mirrors both the object’s mechanical function and the repetitive
labour of factory production, linking the raw materiality of the exhaust pipe
to the masculinity embedded in manufacturing.
By recontextualising the exhaust pipe, the work subverts its typical
associations with speed and power, rendering it slow, redundant and playful.
Stripped of potency, the object becomes akin to a disposable vending-machine
item, while its phallic form points to the allure of power, control and
virility projected onto cars.