Loafhead

(2025)

LoafHead centres on a speculative hybrid figure—part body, part bread—used to explore hesitation, escapism and denial. Bread becomes both material and metaphor: something that nourishes and grows, but also dries out, decays and disappears.

Through textile, sculpture and performance, the exhibition looks at how we respond to instability and crisis: how we adapt, avoid, endure or imagine our way out. At once vulnerable and absurd, LoafHead becomes a figure for both exhaustion and the possibility of change.

Location

Oddkin, East Providence, USA

Dates

2025

Materials / media

Mixed textiles (cotton and blended fabrics); yeasted dough coloured with beetroot and turmeric; acrylic resin and gouache; acrylic paint on fabric

Photo Credits

Pedro MA Faria

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Through textile works that move between painting and object, weather becomes a way of addressing uncertainty, hesitation and the desire to predict what cannot be controlled. Colour, stitching, layering and exposed construction bring surface and structure together, while the island’s persistent cloud cover becomes both subject and condition — something observed, interpreted and waited upon.

Developed in collaboration with Ana Vidigal, Forrado takes Madeira’s landscape and microclimate as a starting point for thinking about the relationship between nature, perception and control.