FirstSite, Colchester, 2020.
Unboxing Alex Frost was an exhibition of videos and sculptures reflecting on the rapid, transient and fluid nature of contemporary life through a range of super-convenience products. This exhibition included videos from Frost’s ‘Wet Unboxing’ series, which for the first time were presented as immersive, large-scale projections. In these videos, super-convenience meals, snacks, drinks, and supplements are submerged and unpacked underwater – to mesmerising effect.
The videos were accompanied by a series of wall-based sculptures made from foods that are part of the same on-the-go lifestyle, such as supermarket sandwiches and frozen pizzas. Encased in resin, these works capture these functional, yet also strangely futuristic, foods, giving them a permanence that is contrary to their original function as fast food.
