A collaborative action with Andrii Chepurko that invited visitors to eat the exhibition. Four edible portraits brought together controversial public figures through a shared act of consumption.
The project is also known as Center of Delight.
Together with Andrii Chepurko, I created four life-size head-shaped cakes depicting Slavoj Žižek, Lars von Trier, Azis and Anders Breivik. We worked with a professional pastry chef on the edible sculptures, giving each portrait a different flavour.
The heads stood on metal trays and white plinths. Visitors could cut them, share portions and taste them: the photographs preserve both the intact objects and moments of their gradual disappearance.
Pleasure Center invited visitors to eat four life-size cakes shaped as the heads of Slavoj Žižek, Lars von Trier, Azis and Anders Breivik. Made with a professional confectioner, the edible sculptures brought recognisable public figures into an encounter that was at once convivial and deliberately uncomfortable.
Each head had a different flavour: gin for von Trier, rum for Breivik, banana liqueur for Azis and herbal liqueur for Žižek. The figures did not form a harmonious group; their contradictory associations became part of the work’s friction.
By asking the audience to consume the exhibition, the project placed taste, pleasure and judgement in direct contact. The familiar rituals of a shared table met a situation in which an artist’s proposition could be more difficult to digest than the object itself. Participation transformed the installation, making its disappearance part of the event.