Greetings from a kitchen, 2024, installation views, PZI Rotterdam, Netherlands
We come from the Michelin Stars and we are here to discuss the terms & conditions of your surrender, 2024, poured paper-plastic-mâché on paper-plastic shreds, 60 x 60 x 10 cm
Open cupboard, 2024, poured paper-plastic-mâché on jute, metal, 120 x 90 x 10 cm
Shoplifter, 2024, text with water color on paper-plastic-mâché, metal 50 x 100 x 40 cm
Get the fruit out of here, 2024, discarded fruit juicer parts, metal, 120 x 50 x 20 cm
Cookie, 2024, digital photo on hook, 20 x 28 cm, hand holding oven-baked sand biscuit, 2,5 x 7,6 x 1,5 cm
Greetings from a kitchen
2024
Discarded kitchen equipment intertwined with paper-plastic-mâché, jute, metal and glazed ceramic
‘Greetings from a Kitchen’ repurposes discarded kitchen tools from my family’s basement, relics of post-WW2 German industrial prosperity, creating a stream of wet, slimy paper-plastic-mâché. The kitchen transforms into an excavation site where daily grocery packages and studio wastes relentlessly accumulate and dominate the space. The overwhelming materiality of the paper-plastic-mâché subverts conventional kitchen notions of cleanliness and order. The kitchen machines are used to chop and mix what is there, transforming the site into an overall sculptural space inhabited by objects that emphasize material contamination, reflect on social fragility, and embody unfamiliar lifeforms.