August 2013, The making of the Copenhagen Biscuit Map
“This summer I’ve had the joy of a job in the city of Copenhagen. My architect friends Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats from Barcelona had been given the opportunity to do an exhibition about their social housing project, 111 Building, in the vast exhibition hall at The Royal Danish School of Fine Art & Architecture. At the same time, across town in the intimate storefront gallery at the Leth & Gori studio they showed work relating to four smaller project that preceded the 111 Building commission.
They asked me to be involved with this double-sited exhibition due to our mutual love of cake eating. Initially I made a pastry and biscuit map of Copenhagen, to link the two sites of the exhibition, which was photographed for the cover of the catalogue. I baked and iced biscuits to mark the train station, metro, bus and water bus stops, museums and landmarks such as Tivoli Gardens. Then, on my kitchen table, I rolled out pastry streets and bridges and the Strøget pedestrian zone in oatmeal, icing parks and the many lakes, canals and the river directly onto the white tabletop. I created a pastry Copenhagen.”
Soraya Smithson