Videocity visits: Abu Dhabi: "Food In Flux; Food For Us"
16.12.2021 – 01.01.2022, Thurs-Sat: 18:30 – 19:30
La Petite, Al Ain Square, Building 9, Abu Dhabi
"Food In Flux; Food For Us" is a a cooperation between Videocity and La Petite.
From 16th of December 2021 to 1st of January 2022, Videocity showcases 14 video artworks centered around food at La Petite Café over three separate screening cycles. In each cycle, food is depicted as more than just a means to nutrition and sustenance; the cultural underpinnings of food, along with its inextricable association to time, are exposed. Led by curator Dr Andrea Domesle, the project invites visitors to experience food – and the act of eating – with estranged eyes while examining the socio-political systems within which food is produced, consumed, and ultimately perceived. Examining everything from capitalist supply chains, modern conceptions of hygiene, to primitive instincts to interact with food, the selected works raise integral questions about our universal relationship with food across space, time, and life forms. Food here serves to reify invisible notions of appetite and acquisition.
Selected artists: Judith Albert, Dimitry Bulnygin, Bernadette Huber, Luzia Hürzeler, Ji-Su Kang-Gatto, Kollektiv Wirr, Andreas Kressig, Jérôme Leuba, Wenfeng Liao, Bjørn Melhus, Albena Mihaylova-Manz, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Leah Netsky, and Martina Wolf.
Curated by Alya Alawadhi.