8 pieces
diameter 27 сm
decal
2021"We are what we eat." The series began with the question "Why are there no dumplings( pelmeni) left?" Or from a memory. In the 1990s, I went to Moscow with my art school classmates for museum practice. And somehow, after the next museum, we went to eat in a dumplings shop, stood in line, and this is exactly the question asked by one of our classmates. I remember a keen sense of shame for a mistake in words and his accent. Remembering all this now, I understand what kind of "dumplings" we were, in essence, all those who experienced this feeling of shame for the imperfect knowledge of the Russian language and for our culture. My "dumplings" - xenophobes, housewives, neophobes, imperfect, ridiculous and funny - are trying to have relevant conversations in difficult times