An offering for midwinter 2022: preorder the combined FAVAS edition by Inês Neto dos Santos at a reduced price. This offer includes both the FAVAS necklace and FAVAS print.

Your print will be posted in the week you place your order. Your fava necklace will be made to order, please see preorder details for our third casting below.

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Gold-plated, bronze cast fava bean from la Sala’s allotment, on a 50cm gold-plated chain.

Limited edition of 30

Sent in plant-dyed linen and packaging designed by Mariana Sameiro and the artist. Printed at R-Dryer Studio in Brussels.

This work is the second part of FAVAS, a set of limited editions by Inês that were commissioned by la Sala in 2020.

Photography by Lottie Hampson

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Please note, this is a pre-order for our third casting of FAVAS. We will close this round of preorders in mid January. Your fava will then be cast and plated at the workshop in London, taking approx 4 weeks to process. We anticipate your necklace edition being posted out at the end of February 2023.  

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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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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.

Last summer, in a hopeful month between lockdowns, I made tiny statues to fava. Starting in wax, then clay, then bronze, small sculptures to be held and carried in our pockets – or around our necks – weighty reminders of the importance of regenerative, symbiotic care practices, of supported sustenance, of what actually really holds us together.

Inês Neto dos Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Lisbon and based in London/Brussels. She completed an MA in Visual Communication at Royal College of Art (2016) and a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration at London College of Communication (2013). Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating the socio-political implications and poetic dimensions of what we eat and how we come to eat it. Through her work, she creates frameworks through which to explore conviviality, collaboration, generosity and togetherness. In recent years, she has delved into the practical and metaphorical possibilities of fermentation, as a gateway into our enmeshed, multispecies existence. More recently, her research has taken her into the study of beans and their soil regeneration qualities, investigating their relationship to supported sustenance and care networks. Inês has been a guest lecturer at Kingston University and Westminster University. Since March 2021, she has co-led the online course Food Cosmogonies with artist Nora Silva at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid.

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