An Arabian bakery in Kreuzberg, Berlin. On one of its walls hangs an abstract painting that silently witnesses the daily routine of baking bread and preparing dough. Parts of the painting are darkened by smoke from the ovens. Maybe the artwork was left there by previous owners or tenants. This juxtaposition of a modern artwork within a working bakery, together with footage documenting an attempt to symbolically transform the globe into a pyramid, is placed in dialogue with the poem “I Shall Celebrate” by the Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure. A subtle exchange emerges between the horizon evoked in Chirikure’s poem and the workers who bake bread for the world.

installation view daadgalerie Berlin, 2012





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