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The ballpoint pen drawings adorning the label of the olive oil tin come from a notebook that Ulrike Müller carried around with her on her travels as a “container” for her artistic ideas and sketches. Vessels like the amphorae that are reproduced here appear frequently in Müller’s work. As bodies that can be filled and emptied again, they stand for a situational understanding of the relationship between form and content that underlies the artist’s practice. Müller sees her images as “containers” that viewers charge with their own meaning. Often crafted using techniques and materials associated with functional objects, these works relate to content, contexts, and bodies that are located outside the art world—such as olive oil and the cuisines and cooks that make use of it.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil by Agricola Due Leoni from the Roman Countryside (www.agricoladueleoni.it)