La carta, por favor
Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris
06 May - 12 June 2021
La carta, por favor evokes a restaurant, a “social” place par excellence and anchored in popular culture. This show is a point of departure for a new body of work for Sol Calero, which began with an invitation from Saâdane Afif to create an actual canteen or restaurant for Bergen Assembly in Norway next year (2022). The idea was to create almost a “mood board” for designing a restaurant, so in this case, we are designing a space as a bridge to another space. The “menu” boards you see in the space hold the drawings, alluding that in this empty restaurant the guests are welcome to select a dish that would let them escape to a new landscape. The connection between the works and the future restaurant is still quite abstract, so perhaps some works are designs for tablecloths or placemats, plates, booths, upholstery, murals, interior architecture, furniture. But nothing is fixed. It’s a collection of open possibilities.
Photos by Aurélien Mole
