From December 8, 2018 to January 12, 2019 Memory of the Future presents EAT! This exhibition is bringing together 12 artists suggesting via photography, video, drawing, installations, a personal vision of our rapport to FOOD, to its consequences, but also to its sociology or to its rituals.
To EAT is a daily fundamental imperative. That's why it is in stake of multiple clashes and encounters concerning ecological, public health, ethical and economics’ issues, as the rude battle about resources between continents, countries and individuals. Consumption has been a subject of intrusive and invasive communication tools, issues that often evoke also the theme of equality, between people, as between groups, also within domestic environments ... as what we eat has nutritional, but also symbolic, moral or political values. Via the Arts, artists have been also a key revelators of these issue, starting as early as in prehistoric art, on the wall or ceilings of caves, where we witness scene of hauntings, then, within the different traditions, cultures or in religions, imposing or defining costumes, rites or celebrations about food, as about agriculture, as concerning the effect of food and of also of the sanitation, within intimate or social life. Food was often also used as a metaphor to portrait the fragility (ephemere) of mankind, through representations of Still Life. Often Artists also expressed critical opinion and revolts facing their irrelevance face the ruthlessness of the consumer society that seems to have no limit.
The matters elevated by the exhibition are various, just as the questions related to the act of eating are numerous. This exhibition aims to provide a glimpse of these subjects to the public, by presenting the works of 12 artists, and the performance of a food designer, Alexandra Roudière the evening of the opening, Friday, December 7th at 8:30 PM.
12.08.2018-01.12.2019
Sylvie Anahory
éric Defoër
Tal Waldman - Talva D.
Catherine Gil Alcala
Janavi M Folmsbee
MebMane
Monica Montes
Myriam Schmaus
Deborah Sfez
Suki Valentine
Isabelle Terrisse
Taylor Yocom
EAT!
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