Delusional Banana

Delusional Banana is a sculptural series that explores the intersections of mythology, gender, and identity through the transformation of a familiar and culturally loaded form.

Using the banana as a primary motif, the works reinterpret mythological figures and narratives, shifting their meanings into a contemporary context. The form operates simultaneously as a symbolic, sexual, and cultural object, allowing the works to interrogate structures of power, masculinity, and bodily representation—not as fixed conditions, but as unstable and performative states.

Several pieces draw on mythological relationships—such as Ganymede and Zeus, or figures like Icarus and Priapus—to expose underlying tensions between desire, control, excess, and collapse. These narratives are not illustrated directly, but reconfigured through material and form, where the body becomes a site of distortion rather than representation.

A key element of the series is the use of a skin-like surface, replacing the natural texture of the banana. This shift collapses the distance between object and body, blurring boundaries between the human, the mythological, and the artificial, while emphasizing the vulnerability embedded within forms that appear assertive.

In some works, commercial imagery—such as banana-flavoured chewing gum logos—is introduced as a cultural layer. These elements reference systems of consumption, repetition, and simplification, creating a tension between mythological complexity and contemporary mass culture.

Through this combination of symbolic form, material transformation, and cultural reference, the series constructs a space in which identity, power, and gender are continuously produced, destabilized, and renegotiated.