Organic Fast Food

From time to time, I come across an artist who blows my mind in a way I can’t totally explain and there’s no way to deal with it except getting other people amped about on him/her on a much grander scale. Say oi to Brazil's Apo Fousek, everyone: in his art show, Organic Fast Food at backpack brand Eastpak's concept store in Sao Paulo, the soft-spoken artist forces viewers to think about our relations with time, money and how we impact nature through our consumption in a scrupulously rendered story line of drawings centered around a village and its inhabitants. In one scene, a family has nightmares about the beef they ate for dinner (Fousek's a vegetarian); on his Volcom-commissioned organic cotton tees, the messages are more blatant, like one of a bike rider with a cartoon bubble emanating from his mouth, filled with not words but pictures of cars. Fousek's calling attention to our penchant for excess, even if it's just for the moment that we're spending looking at his pieces before returning to our everyday lives. But speaking about consumption: in just a few hours of the show's opening, several pieces were already marked as sold.

Eastpak is hosting the show as part of their ongoing program that invites artists to a month-long residency in their gallery space. If you're around, there’s an open invitation for you to walk in and talk to artists or view their work in progress.