Masmoudi  —   2014
Edible installation and video for Masmoudi's 40th anniversary in collaboration with culinary designer Myriam Méliani


For the anniversary of Maison Masmoudi, Myriam Meliani and I imagined an edible installation entitled A Thousand and One Hands, paying tribute to the women who work in the pastry workshop.
Hundreds of open boxes revealed moulded white chocolate hands — casts of the actual hands of the women who have worked there for 20 or 30 years — each pair holding the pastry they specialise in. Every pair of hands was unique.
A copper bracelet engraved with each woman’s name accompanied the installation. For the founder, an edible pendant: her portrait rendered in sugar and worn as a piece of jewellery.
Honouring the everyday gesture, care, and invisible expertise.
Consuming the portrait as an act of celebration.


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