Benjamim’s Kitchen. Marisa Benjamim expands the exhibition space of Galerie Wedding by turning the usually restricted back room/the gallery kitchen into Benjamim’s Kitchen – a spatial installation that is a garden, a site of memory and a petal laboratory. Her longterm exploration and artistic interest in falling leaves (in drawings) and edible flowers and petals (in performances), her history, its depiction and use as well as the kitchen as a social space represent the focus of the artist’s work. The architecture of the gallery is reminiscent of a greenhouse and offers a suitable temporary home for her plants. Their culinary preparation is an important part of Bemjamim’s artistic practice.

Benjamim´s Kitchen

Floristaurant is an artist project based on the importance of eating flowers. In short, a restaurant of flowers.
For this initial exhibition, Marisa Benjamim presents a video installation, inspired by a popular culinary show and a floral installation in one of the flower-stands at the Boqueria food market.

Benjamim embodies the role of a television personality where she examines nature/culture relations in the culinary language: A myth serving as vehicle for explanation and mediation from the history and presence of flowers in our main meals. The artist introduces and describes the edible flowers in a menu based on her own diary of everyday recipes. Marisa Benjamim wants to debunk the contemporary assumption that hunger was part of our original condition.

“Dairy, honey, the fruits of the land, vegetables seasoned with salt, bread cooked in embers, these were the foods of the first peoples of the earth. They made use of these benefits of nature without any other refinement and were as a result only stronger, more robust, and less exposed to disease…” (Diderot et al. 1976).

Floristaurant

 Rhythm #3 is a collaboration work between Andrea Lira and Marisa Benjamim based on the ideas of direction, balance, weight, and how they interact in space. The project explores the recurrent intervals and motion of living things, the interaction between shapes and how things transform and decay overtime. This collaboration aims to create a visual beat through actions between stillness and motion. Art Connect Berlin | INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE

Rhythm# 3

The artist proposed a live performance after collecting plants, stones, see water and an old projector. These composition of actions created a very strong and delicate moment, were she could suspend herself, in moments were gravity became poetry. She created an hybrid form, with her body and the natural elements of the performance, by involving movement, light and matter and changing their space and reality into something that can be defined as invisible weight. Empirical Survey on a Heritage, Lazzareto di Santa´Elia, Cagliary / Italy

Holding gravity

Balance is the central concept in this installation. The stone, piece of cement, and a fragile plant that survives in the air, with the same amount of weight, hanging in the same level in two teaspoons. During the exhibition the equilibrium of this installation is precarious. The stone that shows more evidences of strengthness is blocked in the frame of time and weight, unlike the plant, within a fragile body that feeds on light and humidity. The plant grows and this growth increases its weight, deregulating the balance between these two bodies. The poetic of the piece has an intention, to discuss the importance between the idea and the object. A questioning between the conceptual and the physical dimension, the understanding of this dichotomy and how this is understood in the uniqueness of each artist that participated on this project.previousnextclose

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