Food Exhibition
Commissioned by:
Design Museum Holon
Curators:
Liora Rosin & Dana Ben Shalom
Materials:
Colored MDF, Foam PVC Sheets, Printed PVC Strips Curtains, Plaster walls.
Humans and their food entertain a reciprocally influential dialogue. The human cultivation of food began with our prehistoric ancestors, who gathered, hunted and grew produce, and continues today with contemporary processes of enhancement, preservation and development. Food, in turn, shapes, seduces and defines humans. We are catalogued personally, collectively and socially as vegetarians, vegans, or carnivores, in accordance with the types of food we consume and the ways in which we consume it: organic or processed, home-cooked or ordered, alone or together.
Food and our concern with it give expression to the set of values we adhere to in our everyday lives, while shaping social and individual identity and self-perceptions, as well as the perception of others. We are what we eat, and sometimes what others see us eat.
For the design world, food is both an actual and a symbolic raw material. Designers today are involved in researching, developing and designing various stages in the life cycle of food, while responding to contemporary consumer culture, at times even critically. The exhibition examines the basic yet tangled relations between humans and food, as well as the complex status of design in this equation. The works in the exhibition revealed different natural and artificial strategies of seduction, while offering contemporary narratives about humans and their food.
Photo Credit – Elad Sarig, Dor Kedmi.