Joseph 2012-2014 - Inclusion of bread head in polyester. Unique piece 21 x 27 x 28 cm. Polyester, bread, molds. |
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Pasta Madre 2011 - Ongoing The project Pasta Madre was first inspired by the Christian celebration of Saint Joseph in Sicily, in the past a pagan celebration of the spring. Several women from different villages gather together in a house and create thousands of little bread sculptures, used to decorate Saint Joseph’s altar. After the celebration the breads are given to the public as symbol of fortune and prosperity in the new solar year. Bread is one of the most common foods in the world, produced for many thousands of years, has conditioned the growth of our civilization and the development of our culture. Like a plant developing and adapting to weather conditions, bread has evolved with various ingredients, shapes, methods of preparation and tastes, all of which are completely related to the place and conditions of production. Around the world, bread is one of the most important foods, a staple, which accompanies our dishes and our lives. Pasta Madre is a project consisting of a series of sculptures and photographs of the artist’s head in bread left to crumble in different ways. The decomposition results of each head are recorded and preserved with different materials and techniques that transform the biological process of decomposition into an artistic one. The trace of the head, the relation with time, the metamorphosis of the material, of the form and of the image creates an “obeying” fossil to the law of the artist in a process of crystallization half way between improvisation and scientific method. |
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Joseph 2012-2014 - Inclusion of bread head in polyester. Unique piece 21 x 27 x 28 cm. Polyester, bread, molds. |
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Becoming the Landscape 2014-2015 | Crumbling bread head. Photo 40 x 60 cm - Lambda print on aluminum dibond and perspex. Series of 5 plus 2 AP. |
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Fossil Head 2011-2015 |Fossilized bread head. Photo 30 x 40 cm - Lambda print on aluminum dibond and perspex. Series of 5 plus 2 AP. |
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Resten 2021 | Sint Franciscus Kerk, Menen, curated by Chantal Pollier, Belgium.
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Joseph II 2015 - Inclusion of bread head in polyester. Unique piece 21 x 27 x 28 cm. Polyester, bread, molds.
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Pasta Madre | crumbling process. |
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