The Construction of Mastery explores the collaborative effort between father and son in creating a gas oven, a trade central to my family. It reflects shared experience, practical learning, and spontaneity. The work documents the process, relational dynamics, and the transmission of skills, emphasizing craftsmanship in shaping family identity.
Used welding glass (clear), 10 x 10 cm
Culinary intervention Making of Keške in collaboration with my grandmother 𝑅𝒶𝒹𝓂𝒾𝓁𝒶
Ingredients:
- 2 kg wheat
- Whole chicken
- Water
- Salt
- Found grenade shell
- Modified crowbar
Keške1, found Howitzer brass shell, metal wedge, self-published cookbook, 1992–2024
My father transformed a grenade shell into a mortar for cracking wheat, using it to prepare the Christmas dish Keške. This act of repurposing reflects cultural transfer, showing how emerging situations, such as war, shape and adapt tradition, creating a new dynamic of survival and community.
Ꭰꮎꮇꭺćꮖ ꮶꮎꮮꭺčꮖ, print on linen, 129 × 97 cm, 1998/2024
This series draws directly from memories, situations, dialogues, and, materially, from the drawings I made as a child in the cookbooks my mother collected. These cookbooks served as both a guide in learning to draw and a means of communication between us. It was a dynamic akin to that of an artist and a critic—was she collecting cookbooks, or was she collecting my drawings? They became an open field for practice, alteration, and reinterpretation, shaping my early visual language and the way I engaged with images and text.
Installation view