Eis Dolomiti

process, performative action, 2019

Each Eis Dolomiti presentation consists of making a recipe that the artist learned from a retired ice cream maker. At the opening, and then throughout the exhibition until supplies run out, the ice cream is given out for free to visitors.

At the time of learning, this recipe had not been made for ten years, since the ice cream shop closed, taking with it a taste and know-how that had disappeared from the public sphere. The work thus consists of the temporary reactivation of fragile knowledge, made shareable once again.

Each ice cream becomes an edible sculpture embodying a lost knowledge, a capsule of a time and knowledge preserved and then distributed. Between transmission and disappearance, Eis Dolomiti questions the persistence of intangible heritage and the precariousness of all forms of memory.