Stimulate Surpise is a rebranding of a laverbread product by a New York advertising agency, Sid Lee. The product named “Bafa Lafwr” (laverbread in Welsh), provokes an exotic aura of Wales. Handmade marbled packaging simultaneously echoes imagery of the sea and the intricacy of seaweed farming techniques. With this ‘presentation deck’, Dan Rees tries “to persuade the majority of people to re-imagine something that they think of as ‘slime’ instead as a food that they should happily eat with their dinner.” Bio: Dan Rees (b. 1982 Swansea, U.K.) lives and works in London. Rees studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main 2007-9, and graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004. Rees’ solo exhibitions include: ‘Road Back to Relevance’, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2016); ‘Depressed Earth’, Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2016); ‘Stimulate Surprise’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2015); ‘Kelp’, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (2013); ‘Gravel Master’, Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas (2013); ‘Dan Rees’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2013); ‘Top Heavy’, T293, Rome (2013); ‘High Tea’, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2013); ‘Kelp’, MOSTYN, Wales (2013); ‘In the ghetto it gets cold but we’ve got something to warm our soles’, Baronian Francey, Brussels (2012); ‘Cryogenic Blue’, T293, Rome (2012); ‘Shakin’ Peg Rails (And The Sunsets)’, Wallspace, New York (2011); ‘French Cricket’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2010); ‘They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore’, T293, Naples (2009).