Poem Gallery presents Breaking Fast

Poem Gallery, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), and in partnership with Ibrik Kitchen and LiRE, is pleased to present Breaking Fast, its debut exhibition featuring six contemporary Romanian artists.

Breaking Fast, or Rompre le jeûne, attempts to navigate our relationship to our identity through food, faith, and a nostalgia that binds us to our roots.

How do we persuade ourselves to accept an identity through the food, the rituals, the everyday objects, and the longing we collectively share when we leave a place behind? Does the nostalgia betray us? Are the lies valuable, or are they holding us back?

• Food is vital to life, and its primary role is nourishment — but what happens when it starts being used to manipulate us, through how we prepare it, how we serve it, what we associate with it?

• Faith asks whether teachings of love and charity lose their significance in…