Bread and Salt
2026, Communal bread oven (clay, sand, perlit, chamotte bricks, straw, pallet trolley, wooden battens, & bread sculptures) & performance bread baking, 
in collaboration with Monika Raźny, at Trondheimsbiennalen, Nyhavna Trondheim, Norway
Mentioned in The Aesthetic and Material Cost of Development, by Eso Malflor, ArtSceneTrondheim


Bread and salt is sculptural oven and participatory events organised around it: breaking bread performance and communal bread baking event. The project focuses on an earth oven — a place of warmth, scent, memory, and dialogue. Earth ovens are simple and acient technology. Using localy available basic materials like clay, mud, straw the technology is accesible and sustainable. Building earth oven is a manual process where hands claim the communal knowledge. The bread and salt project draws from Eastern European welcoming rituals, in which bread and salt have traditionally symbolised hospitality, prosperity and protection for new ventures. In breaking bread performance artists lit the first fire in the earth oven. Working with fire and the bread-baking process initiates a ritual of symbolic transformation and celebration for Nyhavna new chapter and its local community. Throughout the performance the bread is baked and shared together with salt with audience. In communal bread baking we gathered around the oven to invite everyone for a communal baking experience. Working with sourdough and baking process, tasting hot bread, sharing the meal together. The focus was on the collective experience of this ancient practice and knowledge sharing. The act of baking bread and sharing it is one of the oldest gestures of care for one another, as well as a subtle form of resistance to capitalist food systems.