born in Israel, 1979
lives and works in Tel Aviv

The objects that Sivan Grosz collects are connected to the old world, when consumerism faced Israeli austerity, and today even the nostalgia for this is already readymade. A large sign advertising a "Sandwich for Workers..." is placed on a square stool and creates a touching gesture to Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel. Though it is square and not round like the wheel, "The most healthy and delicious sandwich for workers" brings to the world of objectification and consumption the flavor and aroma of street food that anyone can afford, socialistic.

The sign is more objet trouvé than readymade, because the definition of readymade is reserved for industrial objects that are mass produced. Examples of this are the Alma gum boxes or the boxes of light bulbs that Sivan Grosz uses in an assemblage centering upon the sculpture of The Hebrew Worker by Arie Elhanani from 1934. The straight-angled Hebrew Worker carries on its back the square boxes, as if they were housing projects for workers: structures with straight lines, a vestige of modernism when it was in the service of socialism. The Hebrew Worker and the Sandwich for Workers are artistic readymades that taunt the sacredness of commodities and unwillingly create a new object in the world.