flowers of digestion

Curated by Pascale Berthier

with works by

Pascale Berthier, Lucy Byatt, Enrico David, Cerith Wyn Evans, Kira Freije and Augusta Hood

Opening Thursday 4th June 2026

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CASSIUS&Co. presents flowers of digestion, curated by Pascale Berthier, opening at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, SW1X 8ED on Thursday 4th June, 2026.

flowers of digestion is a meditation on the flower arrangements in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mepris (1963). It brings together a group of ‘object-witnesses’: works in two-dimensions, three-dimensions, permanent and impermanent, that provide points of access and departure from events that are too difficult to process, traumas that can only be digested obliquely, through objects. In Godard’s film, love and contempt are sketched out with such symbolic objects, and it is the tense interplay of memory, avoidance, and misunderstanding that ultimately leads to the protagonist’s death.

The exhibition will include sculptures and works on paper by Enrico David, Cerith Wyn Evans and Kira Freije, alongside Berthier’s own loose reconstruction - a memory rather than a replica - of Godard’s flower arrangements, as well as rubbings taken from the Hospitalfield Memorial Chapel in Arbroath. Parts of the exhibition are to be set among an installation of paper scrolls: a memory of Luciano Fabro’s Habitats, as well as the human digestive system. And for the night of the exhibition’s opening, Augusta Hood (Head Chef at Café Deco) will present a singular mille-feuille, for consumption.

A fully-illustrated catalogue will be published alongside the exhibition, with a text by writer and curator David Bussel. Please email fb@cassiusandco.com if you would like to receive a digital and/ or physical copy of the exhibition catalogue.