The Holy Tetta
Installation, 2022
Installation, 2022
An inside-out cauldron? An emerging island of alchemic apertures, fossils and crystalized flora? Maybe the breast of a giant, the breast of the fat lady. The holy tetta is a sculptural environment built to serve a new speculative ecology of exchange and healing through primordial care: feeding.
An assemblage of gestures that points towards community. The vegan raw cacao potion brewing within the landscape absorbs the unseen ingredients of the recipe, the corporal and spiritual. An exuberant agglomeration of smells, symbols and receptive energies flow through the alchemic apertures enriching the milky potion. As gravity is a push and magic is a pull- the abject breast ultimately feeds from its roots and not from the top, enabling a continuous open but visceral encounter with the audience, who is invited to become both the potion and the bewitched, enabling a divergent cycle of nutrition, revisioning roles, performativity and the occult.