Sula Bermúdez-Silverman for MSF

drinks with leathern ears her tender cries, 2023

Epoxy resin, transparency film, brown sugar bourbon seasoning: sea salt, brown sugar, demerara sugar, spices (including red pepper), molasses, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, citric acid, sunflower oil, silicon dioxide, extractives of paprika, bourbon whiskey 22.9 x 21 x 3.2 cm (9 x 8.25 x 1.25 in.)

About Sula Bermúdez-Silverman

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman draws our attention to material culture—the world of objects and architecture that surrounds us—illuminating histories that are often obscured or elided even as they are present in our everyday lives. Using iconic forms such as a saddle or a dollhouse, she explores how objects can become symbols, and through transformations of scale and material, she destabilizes the way they represent and narrate the past. The artist employs a variety of specific materials—for instance, sugar and insect specimens—as metaphoric devices to think through colonialism and its attendant ideas and tangible effects, with particular interest in the Americas.

About MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from health care, regardless of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

In response to the Gaza-Israel War, MSF are asking for: an immediate and unconditional ceasefire; a lifting of the siege; protection for civilians and healthcare personnel and facilities on both sides, at all times; hospitals and ambulances are not targets, basic guarantees of safety to enable their teams to move to provide services; access to people in need of medical care and humanitarian aid; safe access to essential supplies; increased essential humanitarian supplies must be allowed to enter the Gaza enclave; those who wish to leave must be able to do so safely without prejudicing their future option to return; in the West Bank, for Israeli authorities to put an end to the violence and forced displacements of Palestinians and Israeli authorities must stop implementing restrictive measures in the West Bank that impede the ability of Palestinians to access basic services.

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, drinks with leathern ears her tender cries, 2023. Epoxy resin, transparency film, brown sugar bourbon seasoning: sea salt, brown sugar, demerara sugar, spices (including red pepper), molasses, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, citric acid, sunflower oil, silicon dioxide, extractives of paprika, bourbon whiskey, 22.9 x 21 x 3.2 cm (9 x 8.25 x 1.25 in.)

Sula Bermúdez-Silvermandrinks with leathern ears her tender cries, 2023Epoxy resin, transparency film, brown sugar bourbon seasoning: sea salt, brown sugar, demerara sugar, spices (including red pepper), molasses, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, citric acid, sunflower oil, silicon dioxide, extractives of paprika, bourbon whiskey 22.9 x 21 x 3.2 cm (9 x 8.25 x 1.25 in.)