Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts)
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- No.
- 0065
- Date
- 3 Mar 2017 – 15 Mar 2017
- Type
- Exhibition
- Place
- Koldinggade 12, Copenhagen (DK)
- Group show
- Qua Aqua
- Resembles
- 0095 Putins Nose
- Read as
- VIOLET 21%, BRIGHT, FLAT, SPARSE
- Links
- www.idoart.dk
Two texts were airbrushed directly onto the wall using beetroot juice for the group exhibition Qua Aqua at Koldinggade 12 in Copenhagen. The exhibition featured artists working in watercolor and gouache—a medium known for its fluidity and delicate textures—even when their usual practice includes sculptural, video, photographic, or installation-based work.
One text reads:
“In the bottom drawer of my fridge are a few beetroots that have been left there for so long that they have begun to leak red liquid.
The liquid stains my hands when I reach into the vegetable drawer.
The rose coloured spots on my hands spread the beetroot taste to objects and architecture, as the house begins to smell like freshly ploughed earth.”
The second states:
“If you lick the walls of a freshly painted room you may notice a familiar aftertaste.
The taste of the titanium pigment which is also used as a whitening agent in milk and sugar.
It is also used in moisturisers to preserve ageing skin and to draw the white lines that mark when one is out of bounds.”
These texts link material presence, scent, taste, and architecture, using organic pigment to activate sensory memory and infuse the gallery space with the permeable traces of everyday substances.
