Don’t play with food

When I was a child, she spent hours sitting around a table and trying to finish my meals. Food was soooo boring for me! Ipreferred to draw on the plate with it, rather than eat it. So, my mother kept on repeating: “Don’t play with food!”

More than three decades later, this sentence comes back to my mind, and I decided to use it to explore different relationships food can activate, but also the layers of understanding about a place, cultural and social habits, environmental issues that go through food. I used a simple visual mechanism: I introduced myself in different contexts where food is produced or consumed. I asked people to share with me a piece of their daily life connected with this element. I decided to appear into the picture because she wanted to be part of people’s life and speak from a subjective perspective using irony and self-exploring.

I also took some still life about food or object shared or donated during the meals.

assigment by: Yeast Festival 2024