AJAR

A door is kept ajar, letting the buzzing of the street seep in and mix with life inside.
With the exhibition Ajar, artist Martha Hviid looks into the environment and activities that take place in and around the restaurant Baka d'Busk. Through the works she mirrors the daily life and rhythm of the place, and the flow between "inside" and "outside".
A gallery of vegetal characters hang, as an autumnal buffet of ceramic platters, whilst a series of paintings based on the passing street life are integrated into the restaurant's interior.
For the platters LA-based musicians Julia Holter and Nite Jewel (Ramona Gonzalez) have composed a soundtrack that, in conjunction with the visual works and the menu, imagines which flavours, smells, memories and emotions food (specifically vegetables) generate within us.  

Baka d'Busk is a vegetable bistro located on Rantzausgade in the heart of Nørrebro. Since opening in 2019, they have made a name for themselves, not only due to their imaginative approach to vegetarian food but also their focus on giving the guest an all-round sensory experience - one of these elements being their changing exhibition programme showing young experimental art, compiled by the place's in-house curator Efrat Edelsten.

At Baka d’Busk.
with a soundtrack by Julia Holter & Nite Jewel. Duration 9:59 mins., stereo.

2021.