When dough flies through your kitchen

2021 | HD Video, metal, wood and paint | 4’04” | 120 cm x 220 cm x 40 cm

Exhibition view of the exhibition Des choses vraies qui font semblant d’être des faux semblants at Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille

When dough flies through your kitchen is an installation initially made especially for 76,4 a project space located in a display window in Brussels. The installation consists of a swing, a video in which the artist tries to use the swing and a short anecdote that Beckers would tell to individual visitors during the opening. The anecdote is about how early hand mixers would sometimes make the contents of the bowl fly around the kitchen. Dealing with this problem the manufacturers of these mixers had to constantly veer between the costumer’s desire for safety and the costumer’s desire for freedom.

“Still it didn’t stop people from sending in complaints about those hand mixers. This time not the complain about dough flying all around their kitchens, but instead they complained that suddenly they weren’t able to put the hooks in every slot on the mixer anymore. Why was that? People asked. Why couldn’t they decide to put the hooks wherever they wanted? Why didn’t they have that freedom anymore?”

Realized with the support of Mondriaan Fonds

Curated by Michel François
Camera: Steven Jouwersma

Thanks to Niels Vaes