'Partial Equilibrium' is a digital readymade which appropriates, interrogates and recontextualizes the first American readymade: Jeff Koons’ 'One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank'. Created in 1985, the work immortalized the Spaulding basketball, floating suspended in an aquarium, as a symbol of opportunity and prosperity. Brambilla's 'Partial Equilibrium' confronts viewers with the dismantling of Koons’ art object and makes way for a new one. Known as a creature in both Norse and Greek mythology as a symbol of destruction, an Octopus appears to overtake the original structure entirely, disrupting the basketball’s delicate state of equilibrium within the aquarium.
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