Pane e burro

After spending one year struggling to return to China post covid, the artist changes trajectory. She is paradoxically welcomed in a land that was closing its borders thanks to Brexit. "Bread and butter" is an ironic celebration of a country towards which the artist has always had mixed feelings. She reveals this dichotomy in an installation in which the bread, modeled in monstrous shapes, is intertwined but at the same time opposed to the butter candles which, when lit, bring light into the darkness, radiating the entire room.The performance involves the lighting of candles by the artist in a moment of ritual similar to a religious act. A moment of ironic thanks for the opportunity received by the queen.The candles slowly melt on the bread. The butters, all of different flavors (anchovies, breadcrumbs, cherries, peanut butter and chilli, lemon zest and herbs, red wine and shallots) are intertwined with different types of bread (black garlic, corn flour, carnation and cayenne pepper, chestnuts, mixed seeds, white strong) creating a multitude of flavor combinations. Visitors are invited to take large knives in their hands and cut their own slices of bread, covering them with butter to create their own combinations and coming into direct contact with the work. Touching the various elements with hand, ingesting them, thus absorbing the meanings they carry with them.