Gold and black riso print produced by Calipso Press, in Cali, Colombia, for la Sala in 2020.

40x28cm (approx A3) print using rice and soy based inks on crush corn 250gr, paper made of corn residues.

This edition is the result of a series of conversations in Spring 2020 between artist Inês Neto dos Santos, Eva Parra from Calipso Press and la Sala.

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extract from Favas com chouriço, a Saturday affair.

Inês Neto dos Santos

Favas, fresh out of their pods, sold cosy in see-through plastic bags at the saturday market. Mum would cook them with chouriço (well, an onion first, and lots of olive oil, salt - what is a stew without them to start), juicy with a pinch of fresh tomato. They’d cook slowly in the pressure cooker - the kitchen gadget most fascinating and horrifying to a young-year old me. A singing jet of white steam signalled their full tenderness, habemus fava! The beans were fresh but never shelled - what a waste - kept in their bitter, leathery coats. Providing the sufficient amount of bite as each forkful is deposited into the mouth, perfectly balancing the sweet, smoky fattiness of the cured pork. As a child, I despised this dish. From the strong, grassy smell to the bitter thickness of the beans’ coats - right through to the pressure cooker, I’m sure - it was the awfullest thing I could hear coming out of my mother’s mouth when I asked, expectantly: What’s for lunch? It was a grown-up taste, no doubt, as all other children I met at the time shared my disgust towards it. Aunts and uncles gathered, mopping up sauce off their plates, humming and aah-ing in tastebud ecstasy. Beats me, I’d think.

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