Barney Pau

An image of a phallic loaf of bread on a wooden table. — The Baker’s Bedroom, Bread (rye & spelt; YQ, emmer, squarehead master, & whole grain wheat; wrinkled, marrowfat, yellow, & carlin peas; styrian pumpkin, sunflower, hemp, brown & golden linseed; rolled & jumbo oats; rye, barley, & malted wheat flakes; salt), paper, found objects, gouache, 2022.

The Baker’s Bedroom is a comment on heteronormative domesticity. By focussing tropes of home, the piece challenges how we view consumption, and suggests how the practice of queering might help change these consumptive practices.

Fortify, Dough (fortified white flour, fast action yeast, salt), found objects, 2022.

Fortify evokes the horror of contemporary food production practices, focussing on the fortification of flour. Themed around sterility and purity, I filmed a dramatised version of the fortification of bread.

Geologic Bread, Clay, bread (mulika, emmer, YQ, & squareheads master wheat; spelt, & rye; red fox & badger carlin, marrowfat, whole blue & yellow peas; foraged common sorrel, oregano, yarrow, ribwort & broadleaf plantain, meadowsweet seeds; pumpkin, sunflower, hemp, brown & golden linseed), charred bread, 2021.
Geologic Bread, Clay, bread (mulika, emmer, YQ, & squareheads master wheat; spelt, & rye; red fox & badger carlin, marrowfat, whole blue & yellow peas; foraged common sorrel, oregano, yarrow, ribwort & broadleaf plantain, meadowsweet seeds; pumpkin, sunflower, hemp, brown & golden linseed), charred bread, 2021.

Geologic Bread is a collection of prescient semiotic artefacts, made to communicate sustainability across deep time, to a fictional society 10,000 years in the future that relies wholly on industrial food production.

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