INÊS QUEIRÓS

Massa Mãe unfolds within a rural landscape where bread is both sustenance and social memory. Born in Favaios, the village of Inês Queirós’s grandfather, the project emerges from daily gestures shaped by wheat, heat, and repetition. In a post-pandemic context marked by scarcity, the work turns toward bread-making as a fragile social structure — one that quietly binds labour, care, and community.

From within the bakery, textile studies gather the imprints of walls, tools, dust, and dough. Cloth becomes vessel, shield, and carrier, recording folds, stains, and tensions that trace the persistence of rural labour and ritual. These surfaces act as soft archives, holding the marks of a place shaped by work and transmission.

Aslı Hatipoğlu’s video inhabits the rhythm of the bakery from inside the body. Thought unfolds through repetition; movement is shaped by kneading, waiting, and heat. The work observes how food and labour inscribe themselves onto perception, revealing the subtle negotiations between endurance, industrial process, and care.

For the opening, fragments of Rosario’s forty-two-year-old sourdough starter were shared, allowing visitors to carry a living trace of this ongoing ritual.