Potato X-mas

With a focus on abstract space and details that often go unnoticed, Jytte Høy uses simple gestures and materials to add new dimensions to perceptions of everyday objects and the relationships we establish with them. She reconstructs objects by exploring their structures and inner workings, which opens them to new experiences through unexpected encounters and partnerships.

In "Potato X-mas", Jytte Høy cuts the branches of an original Christmas tree, stick iron rods in their places and finish them off with a large potato at the end. Thus, the artist playfully combines the most everyday of foods, the potato, with the symbol of Christmas festivity, a time of excessive eating.