Banana Tiama 1.0

It cannot be eaten, it doesn't rot. It is a queer fruit, an urban object, a political gesture. Banana Tiama escapes consumption to become a lasting icon — a non-conforming presence in a shifting landscape.

In a Milan that becomes tropical by conceptual act, the banana disguises itself. No longer the monochrome, serial product of multinationals, but multiple, eccentric, queer. A pop anthem to aesthetic, social, and gender biodiversity. Every peel is a flag.

The symbol-object of virility is disarmed here with irony. From fetish to totem, from vulgar allusion to sign of freedom. Its inedibility is intentional: it is not consumed, it is contemplated.

Banana Tiama is an antidote to gender violence and the banality of reality — it plays with form to subvert codes, in a permanent celebration of difference.