Bread, projector, 3 min video 'La Vie Mode d'Emploi' video, acrylic glass.
This work is a panel of bread in the form of a orthagonal Latin square inspired by the French writer Georges Perec.
The point is that orthogonality is actually the relation of two lines at right angles to one another, perpendicular so to speak, so really an orthagonal latin square is 3 dimensional.
I like to think of the panel of bread as an orthagonal Latin square, as one plane is material and other is immaterial. The bread cubes left after I made the panel were put on the latin squares found in the paving at the Palazzo di Duomo in Milan. The pigeons consumed the bread and flew away. In this way really the empty space is the work. (But of course there would be no empty space without the bread).
The video created of the process of consumption is projected through the empty spaces of the bread panel and reflected in reverse on the floor.
(Lost Art is a book that commemorates ‘The Gallery of Lost Art’ - an immersive, online exhibition at the Tate London that told the stories of artworks that had disappeared. http://galleryoflostart.com/)
