“Le Pain Symbiotique is like a synthetic gut: in constant motion, it ferments in the literal and allegorical sense. Maybe that’s why the structure is off-limits: to avoid the release of intestinal gases.”
– Curator and critic
Régine Debatty, parsing
Anicka Yi’s inflatable PVC dome currently installed at
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, as part of Yi’s solo show “
Metaspore.” The 2014
piece harbours an eco-system of bread dough, ochre pigment, and resin sculptures, highlighting the critical ”work performed by invisible bacteria and yeasts.”