Javier Mayoral’s Outdoor Ice Cream Merchandiser is a delightfully absurd composition that fuses pop culture kitsch with sly eroticism. At the center sits a commercial ice freezer, its blocky form emblazoned with cheerful red letters spelling “ICE.” Perched on top are a motley collection of objects - a beckoning lucky cat, a garden gnome, and a giant soda cup - while to the side, a scantily clad woman in lingerie and heels adjusts her bra. The flat, candy-colored backdrop and deadpan arrangement of figures give the scene a surreal, almost dreamlike quality, where desire, consumerism, and humor collapse into one. With his signature wit, Mayoral transforms a banal convenience-store fixture into a stage for playful contradictions, where the coldness of “ice” collides with the heat of seduction.