ICA Lightless Fires invited artist Mirna Bamieh to reflect on the concept of fermentation, the process that allows us to preserve things while transforming them. What can we learn from bacterial cultures in times of uncertainty and crisis? For Mirna Bamieh, fermentation is a metaphor that recalls rituals of conservation, social transformation, regeneration. Lemons in various states of transformation rest inside glass jars. Ceramic bodies lie between layers of salt. Sour Things: The Kitchen is a disturbing and mysterious scene that indicates a perpetual becoming, populated by things halfway between conservation and decay. Fermentation thus becomes an analogy of memory, history, change, time and coexistence.