1. What aspects does this artwork integrate (formally, plastically, or conceptually)?

Formally this work is made of wafer papers made of olive oil, salt and potato scratch. There are two types of paints used in each edition: the printed ink is made out of salt and carbohydrates. The pens used for signing the prints are made of water, propylene glycol, high fructose corn syrup, glycerine, citric acid, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate.This is an artwork print edition that can be 100% eaten.

It's a work that can be framed and hung on a wall, it can be eaten as part of a meal, part of a celebration, or just for the pleasure of eating art. 

Conceptually this work reflects on the temporality of objects, the art market voracity and social injustices surrounding the troubling reality that many are deprived of basic sustenance .

This print is a frame of the video — Moving organism painting :: Paris 01 — which was the first work I did when I arrived in Paris in December 2022. I wanted to experiment with materials I had collected in the first month between Paris, Tourraine and Brest. This work was a visual and sonorous experiment in collaboration with the artist Carolina E. Santo, and for her projects Effects Mer.

2. Where is it embedded? (what was the genesis of its creation? - the milieu, the context).

The work is embedded in the expanded notion of what culture is. It's embedded in our everyday actions, in the alchemies and cooking of aesthetic notions and human activities, in organic matter, in humanity as an embedded part of the ecosystem. It converges both video and collage, which are recurring mediums in my investigation.

3. What Question or Action does it pose?

The main questions are: “Shouldn’t we all be putting our efforts to fight poverty, injustices and wars? Shouldn’t we be creating democratic spaces for everyone to think, learn, eat, love and live well? What can art markets do for it? What can I do for it with my art practice?” 

Rita Rebelo de Andrade (Portugal, 1992) lives in Paris and develops a participative multidisciplinary artistic practice, grounded on the notions of aesthetic alchemies as experiences that incorporate the impact of our actions and its interplay with the environment. She graduated in Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, has a master's degree in Performing Arts from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and completed an academic internship at the Assembler du Dehors association in Paris. Furthering her studies in Multimedia Art at the Academy of Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and lived in London, where she devoted herself mainly to jazz and painting. Since 2016, Rebelo has been invited by the artist Vhils to collaborate on various projects, as well as participating in implementing a major cultural center in Lisbon -  Brotéria. Highlighted in her recent trajectory are the artistic residency Effets Mer in Paris; followed by the collective show Mondes Nouveaux ( 2023) and the collective show, Tantas Vezes Digo Ao Orvalho Sou Como Tu at Brotéria Cultural Centre, alongside prominent artists such as Alberto Carneiro.