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With motifs often straying from one work to another, Pigott’s work has the blend of simplicity and complexity that often characterises a rich interior world externalised. In ‘SMS Me’ a cucumber watches other cucumbers re-enacting Velazquez’s ‘Rokeby Venus’ on an iPhone, while slices of cucumber rest on the floor like hunks of green flesh. It’s a bizarre, oddly sexualised scene that seems to depict the individual willingly participating in the same culture that mutilates it. And yet those relentlessly upbeat smiley faces — the same ones that make the cucumbers human — combine with the …