
Brodolino, 2014 - Reto Pulfer
about this work
Brodolino (2014) is an inkjet print on cotton paper and refers to a ghost made from the following items: cinnamon, black cardamom, star anise, fennel seeds, coriander seeds as well as pieces of self-made Raku ceramics. Reto Pulfer used the spices in a broth akin to a Vietnamese “pho-soup”. He cooked them for one hour in a cotton bag and removed them afterwards from the pot. The flavour stays in the soup and the steam has an intense smell. According to Pulfer, the ghost has always been in the soup and the steam, even though he formed it only after cooking the soup.
Brodolino was published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Dehydrierte Landschaft of Reto Pulfer at Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva in 2015.