෴EDIBLE STORIES෴

෴EDIBLE STORIES෴

෴EDIBLE STORIES෴

30.10 – 1.12.2024
opening: October 29 | 18:00

 

 

with
Andrea Popyordanova (Bulgaria)
Kalina Dimitrova (Bulgaria)
Mitch Brezounek (Bulgaria/France)
Pravdoliub Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Radoslav Angelov (Bulgaria)
Rosie Eisor (Bulgaria)
Sevda Semer (Bulgaria)
Florent Poussineau (France)
Yurika Takahashi (Japan)

Food is an everyday part of our lives, a routine that we cannot go without, but also a unique language, a way to express ourselves, our views and understandings of the world. In this daily choice, our attitudes towards social and political life, towards climate change, our religious affiliation, even the moral and ethical boundaries we set for ourselves can be seen. In art, food is very often an object, but also a medium through which important aspects of the modern world are revealed and discussed. It is a “delicious metaphor” of life itself, understandable by everyone because it concerns every living being, on both an emotional, psychological and physical level. The exhibition “Edible Stories” is part of the Credo Bonum Foundation’s cycle of exhibitions dedicated to climate change “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”, but chooses not to present directly or with data the dramatic picture of ecological imbalance to which feeding an increasingly rapidly growing humanity leads, but to turn to the voices coming from the narrow parameter of our food daily life. Where food is a conscious decision, a position, but also a dialogue, an intimacy that we need. Where the culture of consumption is left aside to make room for our conversation with our own body, instinctively feeling – perhaps before us – the looming cataclysms. An exhibition could not change the dramatic curve in scientific data any more than our lunch choices could, but both are small steps towards a return to the meaning of mindful action.

In the center of the exhibition hall, French artist Florent Poussineau is constructing the remains of a large sugar Atlantis. The mythical sunken island appears as an image both of the pernicious passion for excessive sweetness and, but also as a metaphor for the fragility of the world we live in, a world that could melt and disappear like a sugar cube in a glass of water. About his sugar sculpture, the artist says: “What if the fabled story of Atlantis was an ancient tool for prevention? What if the term “Atlantis” became an adjective describing a modern city of our time which will be swallowed up by the waves of the future? We know the risks, we know the stories, but are we capable of changing what seems catastrophic?”

In the period of preparation of the exhibition, five contemporary Bulgarian artists undertook to keep food diaries. These are Sevda Semer, Kalina Dimitrova, Andrea Popyordanova, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Rosie Eisor, and the Japanese artist Yurika Takaashi, who recently started living in Bulgaria, with masterpieces of sugar cookies, tells about the process of getting to know the culture which is new for her. For another French artist who chose to live in Bulgaria, food is also a metaphor. Mitch Brezounek, with a sense of humor, decided to cover the skin of wild mushrooms found in the city with colorful fashionable tattoos.
To bring the conversation back to the field of classical art somehow. The young painter Radoslav Angelov creates a heavy museum environment for the well-known jars with compotes from his grandmother’s winter preserves.

An accompanying program is also planned within the “Edible Stories” exhibition.

With the support of the Embassy of France in Bulgaria, the French Institute and the Bulgarian-American Credit Bank. Partner of the program – Foodbox.

 

𖣿Cover: Studio FRAN