
'How to Make Carnation Soup' - a gentle simmer of memory, resistance, and invention.
@adilson.jpeeg, ‘How to Make Carnation Soup’ is not simply an assembly—it’s a gentle simmer of memory, resistance, and invention. A collaboration with Floodhouse, this presentation unfolds as an evolving conversation between artist, medium, and history.
With video works, holographic apparitions, screen-printed protest, and installation as invocation, de Oliveira constructs an environment where the ghost of empire simmers beside the dream of revolution. Each element is steeped in his precise technical vision—digital tools not as gimmick, but as language; not as mimicry, but as conjuring.
There is poetry, too—textual and tonal. It weaves through the work like steam rising from the pot, fragrant with longing, bitterness, and wit.
This is not nostalgia. It is a confrontation—a winking one, perhaps, but nonetheless firm in its resistance. It reminds us that memory, when cooked just right, becomes sustenance.
📍 @floodhouse_sa, Victoria Yards.
📅 Opens 4 May
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