Lyra Garcellano allows for those familiar words in a new language to carry the weight of our past, but also our present
That this voice is speaking through a video installation that is about cakes—on display, as it is being sliced, as it is served on plates, as it is staged to be consumed—is critical to this project. The simple analogy belies the complexity of seeing cake and its eating as analogous to art and its consumption. At some point the voice goes beyond the question of how much of that cake is yours? To: is it possible that in fact the artist is the cake?