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The Salt of Life is the third installment of a quadrilogy that explores The Place of the Other and gesture as what connects us to them. Camille Mutel continues her exploration of the cycle of life and how death nourishes and generates life.

 

She develops her work around the singularity and fragility of a unique territory: the Seille Valley (57). Far from the coast, this valley shelters springs, ponds, resurgences, and salt marshes of great floral and faunal richness - some of which are threatened with extinction.

 

With culinary designer Céline Pelcé, she imagines a gestural and culinary ceremony in which we are invited to literally nourish ourselves with the landscape. Together, they work with various transformation processes, such as the distillation of mosses, which retain the spirit of the land, the fermentation of apples—turned black—and the fumigation of endemic plants. Akin to a ritual, the sensory experience takes shape in the mouths and memories of the guests gathered there. Cuisine, dancing bodies, and sound intertwine in an organic space. Between poetry and documentary, the performance, inspired by funeral banquets, honors the memory of the soil and the way in which death nourishes the earth and allows for rebirth.

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