
In Case You Miss Breakfast 2024
Curation : le pépin mû
06-14.06.2025
The exhibition took place at La Galerie du Crous de Paris.
“At night, the sense of smell doesn’t sleep. And yet, it seems absurd to project scents into dreams. Upon waking, dreams dissolve and the senses reconnect with the tangible. In this transitional state, lived experience and fantasy blur. The binary relationship to reality loses its grip. Naomi Feigelson explores this threshold through an olfactory installation. Scents diffuse from Italian moka pots, releasing hints of toasted bread and coffee. A long white drape softens the light filtering into the gallery, now steeped in this woody aroma. One reads in it the scattered memory of a dream. The floor is scattered with fragments, as if spilling from that very reverie: ghosts of a lizard’s tail, twigs coated in resin; fresher notes weave through the visit. The savory shifts toward an earthy smell, reminiscent of petrichor — the comforting scent of summer soil struck by rain. It seeps into the breakfast the artist has composed. In case you miss breakfast, will you still be able to remember your dream?
The sudden pop of the toaster punctuates the visitors’ wandering thoughts.”
- It’s breakfast o’ clock somewhere – oil infused with toaster crumbs, cardamom, coffee beans, Moka pot, candle, salt dough
- Eau de Lézard – oil infused with beet skins, asphalt, smoked wood, cocoa powder, and dried mushrooms, Moka pot, candle, salt dough
- Best of both worlds – smoked branches, wax, white chocolate leaves
- “Morning lizard!” – screen-printed text, curtain made of doilies
- Ghost toaster – 1-minute toaster sound loop
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