Lepinje Lutke
bread, embroidery thread
31x10x2 cm / 12x4x1 in
2024
Bread dolls made from a traditional Serbian recipe mimic human life as they are baked into existence and eventually decompose.
Lepinje Lutke is a community project, where the bread dolls are baked, birthed and find new homes to dwell, live, and eventually, like us all, decompose.
Dodge Street Gallery
The bread dolls sat on a dining room table with a lace table clothe at the Dodge Street Gallery in 2024. Viewers were invited to become participants and play with, smell, rearrange the dolls on the table.
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