This work is the indirect outcome of a residency stay the artists took part in as part of a Deutsche Bank Foundation programme at Villa Romana in Florence.

The artist explains: “This work is indirectly the result of my cycling through the streets of Florence and collecting branded boxes. Visually, it takes the shape of a colossus with disproportionate body parts: a large head, a huge penis. It is a combination of my impressions of a multitude of Florentine monuments. Its result is a cardboard sculpture: a representation of consumption combined with art. Its title indicates the names of all the brands on the boxes that I used.”

Przemek Branas, born in 1987, is a visual artist, performer, author of installations, videos, and objects. He completed his BA (2009–2011) and MA degrees (2011–2013) at the Performance Art Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków. In 2013, he began Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the University of the Arts Poznań. He is the winner of the second prize at the 2017 Deutsche Bank Foundation’s Spojrzenia Awards. In 2013, he was the recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and in 2015 he was awarded the Grey House Foundation’s Grey House Prize. He was also resident at Meet Factory in Prague (2016), Sesama in Yogyakarta (2017), and Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny (2017).