This fragrant offering-sculpture rests upon an altar-plinth made of sugar cubes. A scent of orange blossom emanates from the sculpture, acting as an immaterial presence.

Teryel is the vernacular name of an ogress from Berber/Amazigh oral tales. She is a figure who is both feared and protective . She rescues women who have suffered violence, devours unfaithful and violent husbands, and punishes sons who disobey their mothers by eating them. Neither monster nor goddess, she embodies an archaic and popular feminist justice passed down by women through orality.

This work re-enacts the gesture of offering from a diasporic position, without direct access to the original tale, using humble and symbolic materials — plaster as a construction material, magical sugar, ritual orange blossom. On the ground, clay elements painted with henna act as prophylactic ex-votos.

The audience is invited to water the sculpture and to enter into the gesture in order to activate the offering.

The sugar altar-plinth is perishable, and the work transforms over the course of the exhibition, reminding us that all transmission is also alteration.