2023
‘Yoghurt Jacket’ is a travelling, wearable sculpture, inspired by stories of travellers and migrants travelling with dry ferments in their pockets - pieces of cloth embedded with starters for bread, cheese, yoghurt… preserved indefinitely, ready to be reawakened wherever they end up. Dirty cloths to outside eyes, but, in reality, portals into a whole world.
Yoghurt jacket is lined with dry yoghurt - dormant yeasts await reawakening, ready to unfold into many yoghurts. This piece serves as warm shelter and source of sustenance, filled with possibilities for multiplication and renewal. What you take out, you can add back in again, in perpetuity.
The yoghurt lining this piece was sent to me Petar Sapundjiev on a piece of his grandmothers cotton cloth, which she used for ironing. I warmed it back to life, used it to make my own yoghurt and dried it again, spread all over the inside of this quilted piece.
Exhibition view, Radical Shapeshifters 2023, DeGarage, Kunsthalle Mechelen.
Cotton, linen, cotton thread, dry yoghurt starter, metal hanger.
