On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo present KNEAD, a duo exhibition with artists Laura White and Liza Dieckwisch, accompanied by a text by Julia Draganović. The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday, May 7, to Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
During their residencies in Rome from September 2022 to July 2023 — Dieckwisch at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo and White at the British School at Rome—the artists developed a creative dialogue centered around culinary experimentation, placing food at the core of their artistic practice.
For the exhibition at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Liza Dieckwisch will present a new series of paintings inspired by photographs of various Roman doughs. The photographs are printed on flexible fabric and are reworked directly in the exhibition space by Dieckwisch, expanding them into painterly compositions using silicone and pigment. The result is an installation that opens up into the space and questions the classical media of painting. Meanwhile, Laura White will create a site-specific installation that investigates dough as a sculptural medium. The installation will incorporate a low platform running through the center of the space, occupied and inhabited by his dough sculptures. Folds and ripples of dough will move across the surface with a sense of urgency, evoke the remnants of something once whole – like the ruins of a larger structure.
Returning to Rome for this exhibition, the artists will craft an immersive experience within a space that perfectly aligns with their themes of food, materiality, and transformation.
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, with its deep-rooted connection to food and history, as well as its architectural features, provides the ideal setting for the evolution of their collaboration.
