July 30th 2014
Edible Matters groupexhibition
Culturally Brewed Representation and Identity
July 24 - August 23, 2014
tAd Gallery
Denton, Texas, USA
www.tadgallery.org
Edible Matters
is an attempt to look at the multifarious meanings of food in social,
cultural, and economic contexts. Food is more than nutrition and
commodity. It is intrinsic to social process as well as our sense of
identity on both individual and collective levels.
Similarly to identities which
are not fixed but constructed and reconstructed within given social
formation, the culinary culture is also shifting and evolving through
time. For example, the organic movement of food goes hand in hand with
the environmental concerns and the social concepts of health food. It
has also shaped and characterized the meaning of being a vegan or
vegetarian. From the multicultural perspective, the assimilation of
foods from different cultures and regions of the world has challenged
the notion of authenticity. And what were once deemed as “ethnic” foods,
such as salsa, guacamole, almond milk, tofu, are now being incorporated
as standard American food.
Graphic design: Levan Trieu
Culturally Brewed Representation and Identity
is the fourth and final exhibition in the series. It runs from July 24
to August 23, 2014, bringing together 7 international artists to explore
issues and concepts of cultural identity and representation in relation
to food. Diaspora, gender, domesticity, racial signification, and
international division of labor in the globalized capitalist economy are
some of the subject matters that this exhibition seeks to bring forward
for a meaningful discussion. The show features the works by Lindsey Allgood, Jessica Fuguery. Thomas Nondh Jansen, Wan Mai Linh Ly, Riitta Oittinen, Jorge Manes Rubio, and Molly Youngblood.
Artists: Lindsey Allgood | Sapira Cheuk | Jessica Fuquay | Rafael
Garrdo | Stephen Groβ | Sanglim Han | Adam Jahnke | Thomas Nondh Jansen |
Raymonde Jodoin | Jane Lawson | Marin Leus | Wan Mai Linh Ly | Trevor
Mahovsky | Terauchi Mari | Tesa Morin | Ngoc Nguyen | Riitta Oittinen |
Kathleen Reichelt | Daniel Rothman | Jorge Manes Rubio | Mikio Saito |
Raewyn Turner | Rhonda Weppier | Molly Yongblood | Curator: Araya
Vivorakij
showing:
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