Consumed: Stilled Lives – Catalog design

Dr Dawn Woolley is a Research Fellow at Leeds Arts University. Her research examines the relation between people and objects, particularly how adverts produce and disseminate social values.

Her central argument is that commodity culture turns everything into adverts, from seventeenth century still-life paintings to selfies. The title ‘Consumed: Stilled Lives’ refers to the process that turns a consumer into a display of commodities. The consumer’s body becomes an advert for the brands it is adorned with and the social values that it reinforces.

The exhibition encompassed a variety of different still lives, using media including photography, video, and sound, that suggest different types of consumers and contradictory relationships to consumer culture.

The Catalog uses the typeface Lausanne by Weltkern.