The Genealogy of the Supermarket

The Genealogy of the Supermarket interrelates people who appear on common supermarket products and organizes them so that they populate one very large family tree. Playing on the fantasies of lineage and heritage that these characters already provoke (“My Italian grandmother made this delicious pasta sauce from a family recipe for me!”), the family tree takes these relations at face value and repatriates them to their rightful place on a suggested living room wall. There are currently 112 “relatives” on the family tree.