Lobsters in Bittersweet Land: Contemporary Art as a Sensual Fable in Wasserburg
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Lobsters in Bittersweet Land: A Sensual Fable About Body, Desire, and Transformation
From October 25 to November 22, 2026, Sara Mayoral Jimenez will show the exhibition Lobsters in Bittersweet Land at the former police station in Wasserburg am Inn. The multimedia presentation combines banquet, video, painting, objects, flowers, sounds, and crystals into a multi-layered narrative about beauty, vulnerability, and the cycles of life.
A Banquet Between Sweetness and Violence
Mayoral Jimenez develops the exhibition from the language of fable. Each room appears as its own chapter, where the ordinary rises to the rank of myth. Colors, materials, and sounds create an exhibition atmosphere between tenderness and restlessness: A landscape full of sweetness remains interwoven with injury, desire, and transience.
The Lobster as a Symbol of Transformation
At the center stands the lobster, which once appeared as a symbol of absurd desire in Salvador Dalí's work. In Sara Mayoral Jimenez's work, it becomes a sacred and edible creature, sensual, shiny, and ambiguous. Its body refers to transformation and sacrifice, familial bonds, hunger, and the intimate connection of consumption and love.
Materials Between Life and Decay
The artistic practice of the artist, born in 1993 in Madrid, moves between sculpture, installation, video, sound, ceramics, glass, fermentation, and performance. Mayoral Jimenez explores the boundaries between the living and non-living as well as between preservation and decomposition. Organic materials become carriers of an aesthetic experience, where growth, decay, and renewal are immediately tangible.
Art Historical Context and Sensual Work Examination
The exhibition connects with motifs of vanitas, the banquet, and body art. Food, flowers, and crystals appear not merely as decoration but as signs of temporality, desire, and the fragility of existence. In examining the works, contemporary installation and performative visual language meet historical art concepts of sacrifice, enjoyment, and transience.
An Artist Between Madrid and Munich
Sara Mayoral Jimenez studied fine arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. For her diploma presentation El Buen Morir, she received the prize from the scholarship fund of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her works connect autobiographical perspectives with a universal reflection on body, memory, transformation, and the fragility of life.
Opening Hours and Art Experience
The exhibition is open from Thursday to Sunday from 1 PM to 6 PM. The opening will take place on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 1 PM. The admission price is not specified in the available event information. For art enthusiasts, a concentrated art experience unfolds that connects visual, spatial, and auditory perception.
Conclusion: An Exhibition as a Living Narrative
Lobsters in Bittersweet Land invites visitors as an atmospheric installation about body, enjoyment, care, violence, and transformation. Those who want to not only observe contemporary art but also experience it sensually and intellectually should visit this exhibition live in Wasserburg am Inn. The aesthetic experience arises from the interplay of space, material, sound, and one's own attention.
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