One Picture Book Two #55 : Les pains du désir by Ilaria Turba (2026)

Small format hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 16 duotone plates, 1 original signed photograph

In new condition

About

To desire - from the Latin 'desiderare', which means 'without the stars' - implies the idea of lacking guidance and still wanting to move forward. Working for four years (2018-2022) in northern Marseille, Ilaria Turba made communities gather to knead bread, entrusting their wishes to the dough. More than a hundred bread-sculptures emerged inspired by the ancient Mediterranean culture of ritual breads. Since 2022, these "Breads of desire" have traveled across different places in Italy, finally reaching Sardinia, where these ritual traditions are still alive. Here, in 2024 a final collective rite took place: the burning of the breads - not destruction, but transformation. Through fire, the breads finally became fine, shiny black powder, reconnecting with the desires from which it al began. Their journey remains: a constellation of encounters where bread and desire bind us, like the stars.