‘Plat du Jour, a culinary action Part-I’
A collaborative art installation between an artist, writer and chef, Palo Alto, California. November 2018
Artist Martha Sakellariou conceived the idea of ‘Plat du Jour, a culinary action Part-I’, as a 24hr art event that explored themes around food, home, domesticity and identity. This site-specific installation was set up in a residential home and included works in various forms: video, artists’s books, prints, writings, live readings, cooking, an edible book and food sculpture. The event and exhibits were centred around a communal dinner, reflecting how food is not only embedded in our daily domestic lives but also as a social necessity. I worked closely with Martha on the organisation, research and production for the event.
I designed and exhibited a piece entitled ‘Compositions in Flour’, a book of photographs that I took conjuring up a form of escapism through flour as a raw material. I also collaborated with Martha Sakellariou on a limited edition edible book entitled ‘23 Stories for Plat du Jour’. I designed and laid out a compilation of twenty three anecdotal stories by writer Jennifer Lee that revealed small but significant moments in her life that involved food. This was printed in edible ink on rice paper, 100% consumable.
Photography, book production, layout design, research and exhibition organisation.
