The Wish of the Witness

The work exhibited in Pied à Terre, a two Michelin-starred restaurant is the result of an eight-month residency by the artist. Hadzi-Vasileva is Pied à Terre’s first ‘Artist in Restaurant’ - an annual residency scheme for emerging artists. The Wish of the Witness comprises ten sculptural and installation works made primarily using raw materials sourced from the restaurant kitchen, including scallop skirts and corals, quail carcasses, sheep testicles, fish skins and bones.

The resulting works are carefully balanced between the beautiful and the brutal, recomposing decomposition into beautiful forms. The Wish of the Witness follows a period of in-depth research by the artist, in close collaboration with the chefs, and is influenced by the restaurant’s daily routines and menus.