Charcoal, flour, olfaction, and poetics of rupture. 

Bread as Vector is a project that materializes the paradoxes of sustenance, memory and violence through substance and scent. Charcoal dust and flour is mixed into “carbonised breads”. The smell of fresh-baked bread saturates the space. A contradiction between what the eyes perceive and what the nose senses is arising.

Bread is biopolitical. It is a primary resource whose availability is shaped by forces of war, conflict, economic instability, and climate across the globe. Wheat links vast regions and populations through international food systems. Bread is both abundance and vulnerability. Disruptions through occupation, blockades, market volatility, or environmental disasters expose the fragility of agricultural, infrastructural, and social networks required to sustain life.

Blocked exports, ruined fields, and weaponized access to harvests turn wheat, flour, bread,  into both struggle and resilience. In this work,  bread is not for consumption but becomes an object that  materialises the tension of sustenance shaped by uncertainty and violence. Charcoal evokes what is lost. the smell of fresh bread signal hope.