Casper Braat Gold Tampon, 2023

As part of Braat’s VendingMachine series, Gold Tampon appears amid other consumer-culture icons in a robotic installation that dispenses artworks like commodities. The piece sits on a nutwood pedestal and is delivered through a conveyor system, questioning the relationship between art, objecthood, and consumption.

By elevating a deeply personal and often taboo item to the realm of precious metal sculpture, Braat challenges conventions about what qualifies as “worthy” subject matter. Gold Tampon is at once humorous, unsettling, and iconoclastic—forcing us to confront how culture values and neglects intimate aspects of the human body.