Max and Moritz were two cheeky boys in Wilhelm Busch's 1865 comics. They end up as batches of cookies, later baked and eaten up by ducks. The villagers, who had already been fed up (pun intended) with their mischief, are relieved to have finally gotten rid of them.
"Hier kann man sie noch erblicken
Fein geschroten und in Stücken."
If grains could tell the tales of their own, what would they say? The story of wheat that ended up baked into bread.
QVE: M & M's pain.
Installation. Speakers built into bread. Human voices telling the first person story of wheat, (i.e. the making of bread), in various languages.
Photos: Gaetan Royer Vaguelsy
Photo: Peter Lökös
La Panacée, Montpellier, October 2018.
© Que Vous Ensemble, 2018.
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