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Zhanna Kadyrova – Palianytsia
2022. Found river stone. Variable dimensions.

Before the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine began, Kadyrova lived and worked in Kiev and then fled with her family to the western part of the country. The Palianytsia project was created in the Transcarpathian region, where Kadyrova has been staying since then. Palianytsia is the name of a Ukrainian round wheat bread that Russian occupiers cannot pronounce correctly and therefore acts as a password or recognition mark among Ukrainians. During her days-long search for accommodation and a workshop, Kadyrova found round stones polished by the current in a river. As a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance, she recreated illusory sculptures of sliced loaves of bread out of these stones. [read more]

Mannz Bageri,Lund
Sweden, 2024

LOVING DIVERSITY. We may be of different dough, hood and shape. But we have also a lot in common like the connecting bits and pieces, and our shared memories.

Take our flamboyant Danish pastry with almond twist and our rather straight Austrian wheat stick: apart from that they met each other at MANNZ in Lund for the first time, they really do love each other’s poppy seeds … Friendship forever.

Take care of each other and see you at MANNZ!

2024 January 19
Gaza, Palestine

“This is the Gazan mother. She went to bake some bread for her kids. She did not return to them. The bread is no longer bread. Sorry about the pic.”