Intento—edible landscape


Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland


October 2023
Edible landscape and performance for the opening event of Intento: A decolonial attempt in Aalto University.

50~ servings, plant based
Vegan lavender and lemon cake, lavender buttercream, bilberry buttercream, candied ginger, candied orange, cempasuchil, nasturtiums, pea shoots, frozen dried bilberries, and frozen dried strawberries.


This exhibition took off with an opening act of cutting and sharing vegan cake.  I carefully crafted the cake days before, made of an assembly of lavender and lemon, candied oranges and ginger, and homegrown greens. During the performance,  I sliced checkerboard pieces and passed them along guests while a text about my personal memories from home and feeling of belonging was read out loud. 

“Intento is an experiment and a living archive based on different research initiatives engaging with Latin American contexts present at Aalto University. It presents a curated collection of Master’s and PhD’s theses mainly from Aalto Arts that allow us to engage with specific territories around Latin America. This constellation of works embraces the details, the thoughts, the memories, and the experiences that have emerged from and entangled with specific geocultural localities”
—extract from somos SUR website

Photograph by Vertti Virasjoki
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