marta beauchamp
works artistic research about contact

non capisco un tubo
(2026)

installation

wax, paper, cardboard, plastic forks, translucent paper, rope, staples



Photos © Marta Beauchamp


The installation “non capisco un tubo” features two works around the rhythm of food anticipation: “pommes mayo (2017)” and “underlining pages, understanding urges (2025)”. “Pommes mayo” was set out as an observational drawing study of a fries van at a supermarket car park in Bielefeld in summer 2017. On the days of the study I would walk to the van with the exact coins for a portion of “pommes mayo” in my hand whenever I felt hungry. While eating chips I observed my surroundings and memorised my impressions. Back home I archived the fork received with the chips in a Backhendel paper bag, noted down in my sketchbook the date, the exact verbal exchange with the blond-haired woman working there and drew what I remembered of the situation. In the installation I present the 26 forks collected, 1 fork collected from another Imbiss (Thessaloniki Grill) in the same summer, the paper bag and paper models of the bag and tracings of the original drawings on translucent paper. “Underlining pages, understanding urges” is a transmediation of the scientific article “Free-Running Circadian Rhythm of a Learned Feeding Pattern in Starlings” published by Wenger et al. in 1991. The work consists of three sheets of translucent paper on which I transcribe the article by selectively re-writing or silencing words and data points on the graph, wax starling eggs, wax and papier maché tube-shaped nests and surfaces. On the first day of the exhibition, a white circle on the ground marks the circumference that will be covered by the cardboard tube. The tube was built out of found cardboard, staples and string on the second day.

This exhibition space was sponsored by Atelier O3. Special thanks to Stefan Geissler for dedicated support throughout the production of the exhibition, without which the work would not have been possible.