Sculptural Confections

On May 19, as a Mannie Fresh drum track skittered over party-goers, a row of spotlights flanked the south wall of the atrium at A/D/O, where an assortment of candies encased in clear acrylic jewel boxes glowed atop stacked stainless steel benches. Shaped into watch faces, lipstick tubes, and memory sticks, the candies evoked the assortment of bewildering bric-a-brac one might find themselves confronted with in a forgotten drawer, but rendered in swirling candy colors. Produced by Sweet Saba, the avant-garde candy enterprise of Maayan Zilberman, the party favors’ disorienting combination of the banal and oneiric is only the latest chapter in Zilberman’s career, throughout which she has confounded any medium’s expected form and made a habit of turning attraction inside-out.