Laiz Laiz Mamma
apple tree wood, silk, breast milk
46cm x 55cm x 1.1cm
2010
Series of 11 pieces
Photo by Stefan Altenburger
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Laiz Laiz Mamma
During a public performance, discs of frozen breast milk melted on veils of silk stretched on wooden frames. The milk fat drew irregular and translucent shapes on the immaculate silk intensifying the idea of transparency. Through these fortuitous, autonomous drawings the role of the artist and the traditional idea of painting are radically questioned, and the materiality of the canvases is investigated. The title of the series, 'Laiz Laiz Mamma', which in Rumantsch means 'you want mother's milk', plays with the two different meanings of the word laiz.
