Show me your teeth by Javon Bennett is a commentary and response to the dichotomy of the island’s military past, a base for storage, training and respite, along with the mythical tales of an island grounds to hedonistic play, as its name suggests.
The work consists of an edible installation, made on the island, for the people visiting during the Lustholmen festival. At the island’s green edge, we get to gorge on a giant, shimmering cake. This is to be an open celebration, bringing the lores of the past to life. Much like the sacrificial lamb, imbued with herbaceous aromatics and roasted to tender bites, we celebrate emphatically the peak of days without darkness: shunning responsibilities, dining and dancing dazzlingly, dizzyingly, for as long we’re gifted light. Javon Bennett lives and works in Oslo as artist and baker, creating deliciously edible installations. Playfully exploring ingredients and their bounds, stretching and extracting essences, textures and colours while applicating with a somewhat painterly eye and approach.
A collaboration with MDT
Lustholmen Festival 2025 at Skeppsholmen in Stockholm continues its tradition of celebrating the arrival of summer through dance, performance, music, and art. For this year’s edition, a special collaboration has been developed between Public Art Agency Sweden and Moderna Dansteatern – The Island Dialogues. Curators: Edi Muka, Annika Enqvist (Public Art Agency Sweden), and Anna Efraimsson (MDT).