ASK THE BREAD is telling the most insignificant story, about the most insignificant woman, in the most insignificant village. The question may raise; why tell it? Because in this insignificance, lays the imprint of urbanization and a picture of a country which has moved to the center and forgotten its periphery. In this insignificant story, lives traditions soon to be forgotten, lives a past that has seen and felt the impact of the future, a past glorified and condemned, a future feared with the belief for better.

The performance takes its primary inspiration from the self-portrait project God Nature Toil of the Latvian photographer Vika Eksta. From 2013 to 2015 the artist pictured herself with a photo camera in an abandoned house in the Latvian countryside. Using the clothes and objects found in the house, she staged various situations, in order to re-create her own perception/understanding of the life of the previous inhabitant. The photographies also reflect on traditional Latvian countryside lifestyle and it's an actual state.

The first steps of the project started in June 2019 in Riga when artists gathered in Riga Circus residency to reflect on the traditional values of living in farmsteads and the current situation in rural Latvia. Since then, the artistic team continued to develop the project by collaborating with several artistic residencies such as Interdisciplinary Center SERDE, Gertrudes Street Theatre residency, Residency center Rucka and Sansusī Well - Being residency program.