Mineral Snaps Bar Renata
installation, 2025
excerpt from a curatorial text by Kasia Sobczak and Vasco Forconi
from the exhibition They Sold Us a Dream Then Took Away Our Sleep:
Mineral Snaps Bar Renata is a compact, performative installation in the form of a mobile bar, inviting the audience to taste original water from the Renata spring in Długopole-Zdrój, known for its healing properties. The installation not only evokes local heritage, but also emphasizes the significance of water as a shared resource and its potential to foster social bonds.
By introducing an interactive element, I wanted to animate and loosen the exhibition space. The distinctive taste of the mineral water triggered a variety of associations among those who sampled it. Due to its high iron content, one of the most frequent comparisons was to blood, which intensified reflections on transience, life, and vital forces. The mobile bar functioned as a complement to the video work Zdrojowa, which tells the story of a local café bearing the same name.
Photographs: Carlo Romano, courtesy of Fondazione Pastificio Cerere.
installation, 2025
excerpt from a curatorial text by Kasia Sobczak and Vasco Forconi
from the exhibition They Sold Us a Dream Then Took Away Our Sleep:
Mineral Snaps Bar Renata is a compact, performative installation in the form of a mobile bar, inviting the audience to taste original water from the Renata spring in Długopole-Zdrój, known for its healing properties. The installation not only evokes local heritage, but also emphasizes the significance of water as a shared resource and its potential to foster social bonds.
By introducing an interactive element, I wanted to animate and loosen the exhibition space. The distinctive taste of the mineral water triggered a variety of associations among those who sampled it. Due to its high iron content, one of the most frequent comparisons was to blood, which intensified reflections on transience, life, and vital forces. The mobile bar functioned as a complement to the video work Zdrojowa, which tells the story of a local café bearing the same name.
Photographs: Carlo Romano, courtesy of Fondazione Pastificio Cerere.