Artist’s palate: Oliver Beer’s sesame and peanut candy . (This link opens in a new tab).

For a 2019 solo exhibition at the Met Breuer, titled ‘Vessel Orchestra’. (This link opens in a new tab)., artist Oliver Beer presented 32 hollow objects from the Met’s collection, across many time periods and places, ranging from an ancient Persian jar to a ‘Shiva’ vase by Ettore Sottsass. (This link opens in a new tab).. Suspending a microphone in each of them to capture the specific note at which sound would resonate, he created a two-and-a-half octave instrument that could be played like a piano, revealing the hidden audio dimension of these diverse cultural artefacts and bringing them together in musical harmony. It’s an approach echoed in his favourite nibble, a Korean candy bar (gangjeong) with a ‘super crispy amazing percussion crunch’.