Editions 2025
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Elisa Giardina Papa
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
Moldy Lemons (2025)
© Kerstin Rolfes
×The Sicilian artist Elisa Giardina Papa works with film, drawing, and ceramics to explore how hegemonic demands for order and legibility strain radical forms of knowledge, desire, and embodiment.
The moldy ceramic lemons were created specifically for the exhibition “U Scantu“: A Disorderly Tale by Elisa Giardina Papa. It was on show from October to November this year. Unlike the idealized lemons found in traditional Sicilian ceramic fruit bowls, these appear deliberately damaged, moldy, on the verge of change. They resist nostalgic idealization, shifting the viewer’s gaze toward imperfection, liminality, and contagious transformation. They do not point to decay, but to transformation.
This special project has been conceived in support of the institution’s annual Gifts, offering collectors an opportunity to acquire an original work while contributing to the broader celebration of her practice and the institution.
Six ceramics remain available at Künstler:innenhaus Bremen.
Elisa Giardina Papa (b. 1979 in Italy) lives and works in Sant‘Ignazio, Sicily and New York. Her work has been exhibited at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (The Milk of Dreams, 2022), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA‘s Modern Mondays, 2013), the Whitney Museum (Sunrise/Sunset Commission, 2017), the Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2018), the 6th Buenos Aires Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (2022), the XVI Quadriennale di Roma (2016), Rhizome (Download Commission, 2016), at Flaherty (NYC, 2016), Union Docs (2017), ICA London (2023), at the BFI London Film Festival (2022), at the Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2021), M+ Hong Kong (2023) and the Martin-Gropius-Bau (2023).
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Moldy Lemons (2025)
Glazed Majolika, one piece
Ø 6,5 cm
One-of-a-kindPrice: €660Out of print -
Modly Lemons (2025)
Glazed majolica, two-piece set
Ø ca. 6 cm each
One-of-a-kindPrice: €990Order -
Moldy Lemons (2025)
Glazed majolica, three-piece set
Ø ca. 6 cm each
One-of-a-kindPrice: €1.430Out of print
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