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Name: Youth
Brand: Coady
Price: 1500.0 EUR
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Coady

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Certificate of Authenticity: certificate issued by the artist

Signature: on the back of the work

Edition: unique

Year: 2025

SUPPORT: wall sculpture

TECHNIQUE: Stainless steel, acrylic colors, polycarbonate and mixed media

DIMENSIONS: 37 cm x 27 cm

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Description by the gallery owner

Coady's works are three-dimensional pills, nestled and framed. These capsules, shiny, glittering, and seductive like candy, are the visual embodiment of a central theme in contemporary culture: the fragile balance between care and illusion, between genuine need and emotional dependence.

Through these sculptures, Coady explores the relationship between the brain and psychopathology, between mood and substance, between therapy and the desire to escape. Each pill becomes a symbol of a possible escape: on the one hand, it represents an attempt to manage anxiety, depression, and stress; on the other, it transforms into a portal to a synthetic Eden, a luminous refuge where chemistry promises well-being, happiness, and control.

However, Coady doesn't simply celebrate the drug. Rather, he reveals with irony and depth the contradictions of the medical-centric West, where treatment is often reduced to palliative care. His pills are placebos that mitigate pain but don't cure it, that mask the symptoms but don't address the causes. Framed as pop relics, they become mirrors of our collective fears, icons of the desire for control, but also totems of our vulnerability.

Ultimately, his works stage a loving yet merciless critique of our relationship with the mind, the body, and the ever-delayed promise of chemically guaranteed happiness.

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