Our exhibition in Paramaribo took place in Maisonadia, where we collaborated with chef Paul Lisse and artist Kenny van Genderen

Approximately eighty people visited the exhibtion

The green lighting brought out the images in the pink layer of the riso prints. The green light also was the starting signal for a performance about history and biology

Podosiri is extremely popular in eastern Suriname, but not so much in Paramaribo. Most people in the capital consider podosiri as something a rural thing

Artist Suzanne Bernhardt en I at the exhibition's opening night

The food hype surrounding açaí as an ingredient provides sufficient motivation to many people in the Netherlands to spend their money on products like smoothies and pills. The berries' taste and the traditions that are linked to eating podosiri in Suriname, are left out of the equation

Podosiri prints for which different additives, such lemon juice and baking soda, were mixed with the ink

Paramaribo, January 2020

Artist Suzanne Bernhardt created bowls out of Dutch and Surinamese clay

The bowls Suzanne made were inspired by the 'health bowls' with açaí berries that are trending in Dutch restaurants

Many artists from Suriname were present during the exhibition's opening

Performance by Kenny van Genderen, in which he creates tension between ice and podosiri, two elements that go hand in hand in the fruit's preservation

Suzanne, me, and Kenny, at the end of the opening night