Can you Spare Me Some Soy Sauce?



Can You Spare Me Some Soy Sauce? examines the dissonance between the moral values taught in childhood and the social principles that govern adult life. Photographed in Egypt and Germany, the works are printed on handmade loofah washi, Egyptian cotton, papyrus, and other domestic materials using Japanese papermaking, cyanotype, embroidery, and image transfer. Borrowing, sharing, and mutual aid—once presented as moral virtues—are reconsidered within a society increasingly organised around ownership, efficiency, competition, and personal responsibility. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to discuss a central question: Why are the ethics we learn as children so readily replaced by the rules of capitalism?