Swiss-Italian artist Beatriz Millar recently held her first solo exhibition of bread sculpture in the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. Millar uses this staple food as a form of feminist artistic expression.
Beatriz Millar's long-standing research constitutes the fundamental main theme of her exhibition. Her works embody aspects of her own life and impressions of literary and pop culture materialized in her creation of feministic depictions of early western women.
Millar was born into family of bakers. The bread sculpture originating in Grittibänz, which celebrates historical male personages, is a main influence on her works. Millar's bread sculptures depict women who have left a strong impression on her, whose images she recreates in the likenesses of goddesses.
Millar defines her works as spanning arts and crafts. She has through research formulated processes that preserve her bread sculptures.
A 64 photo section entitled 'gift' forms part of Millar's exhibition. They are of the bread sculptures she made each day before and after the baking process during her year's stay in Italy, and of the reactions of the people she gave them to on the street.