Project: Art and Food - “Can art be food?
Food has always fascinated artists. Its symbolic power allows the expression of cultural, emotional and conceptual experiences.
Debesh Goswami, in his pieces, his performances and his sculptures, has chosen to use bread as a material, which, through its physical properties and its transformations, allows us to explore new possibilities.
- The “Flexible borders” 2004 action translates the limit that exists between the skin and the world as a precarious border
- “Breadland”, Pont-Scorff 2007 or “Bread Mountain” Grand Cordel, 2007 demonstrated that stacked or piled-up solids could be stabilized by supports as well as pots or plates
- “Diving”, 2006 buckwheat pancakes, or chapatis stacked “dusted” or buried in a layer of flour that mutate into heads and faces of which we do not know whether they are emergeing or disappearing.
- The waves of cider in bottles are another reminder of the ritual libations of fermented liquids, seen as a figure of the tide, and are also an instrument for measuring time. Thus, the themes of the body, life and time are intertwined, through adaptation and negotiation between matter and forms and between several cultures.