BELLA CARDIM

What Are You Hungry For? begins with a question that has long permeated my work: What attracts me, what sustains me, and what am I truly hungry for?

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The installation brings together two interactive word searches and an arrangement of one thousand photographic postcards. Hidden within the grids are foods, drinks, places, emotions, and other elements connected to desire, nourishment, and belonging. The postcards contain photographs of things I was, or continue to be, hungry for.

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Visitors are invited to circle the first word they find and take a postcard with them. They may keep it or use it to write back, sharing something they desire, miss, or seek. Through this exchange, a private search opens into a collective conversation.

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The familiar structure of the word search becomes a metaphor for the act of looking inward, identifying what sustains us, and giving language to desires that are not always easy to name. Hunger here moves beyond the physical and becomes emotional, symbolic, and relational.

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What Are You Hungry For? considers the images, places, relationships, and experiences that nourish us, and the ways desire can become visible through the simple act of searching.