NEW EXHIBITION

Graphic design: Levan Trieu

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.

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.

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