Clara Frain-Atallah
@clarahweii
Circa 1972 / 3 Circa 1972
Two dream-like paintings open the exhibition, presenting ghostly table setups merging family memory, historical documentation, and food cultures. The artist merges and reworks her father's stories, the grandfather's professional photo album and his wife's recipes into magical scenes. The fading traces of this family (based in Cairo until the early nineties) echo the artist's research into legacy, gender roles, ceremonial banquets and food's relationship with remembrance.

E Boyf
@eboyf
Multum in parvo
As part of the artist's long-term research into pubs as places of resistance, the installation presents two textile pieces inspired by feminist protest banners from Greenham Common (UK), highlighting the crucial role played by women in the production of beer before the Industrial Revolution. At the centre, an Independence Day mug contains quince and apple wine made by the artist, paying tribute to the link between homemade alcohol and transformative political power.

Natalia Ruhe and E Boyf
@nataliaruhe / @eboyf
Radio Fonte
Borrowing the name from soda fountains and healing waters, this dialogic piece invites artists and spectators into conversations informing a web radio. The car, a liminal space where the intimate meets urban landscapes, reflects the researcher's interest in pubs and soda fountains as third spaces of social engagement. Joining in recording sessions in the vehicle or hanging around the truck with sparkly or alcoholic drinks, these encounters reframe exhibition formats in opportunities for exchange and co-creation.

Inês Barracha
@cal.day.rah.dah
[CAL-DAY-RAH-DAH]
Inspired by the recipe for the Caldeirada from the Algarve (PT), in which layers of ingredients compose a rich fish stew, this performance reflects the stratification of tradition and tourism in forming the local identity. The performance proposes owning the cultural mutation of the region through sarcasm and irreverence, both embracing and disrupting the ludicrous touristic tropes that squeeze regional complexity into fridge magnets and souvenirs.

Julie F Hill
@juliefhill
Ancestry / Ancient Ones / Oceanic Feeling
Exploring the ecological project of thinking beyond anthropocentricity, this collection of works seamlessly ties material intimacy with scales challenging comprehension: deep time, deep Earth and deep space. Comprising folded and layered sculptures made from printed telescope data in edible plant-based inks, natural pigments made from clay and spirulina powders, as well as seawater brines, it contemplates the emergence of life from non-life.

Charlene Shepherdson
@hi.charshep
Not So Sweet
Delicate glassware and various Asian sugars constitute a visual metaphor for sugar's significance in traditional dishes and healing foods in Southeast Asia (SEA). While open pan sugars are not considered sweet enough for the colonial taste, many local recipes favour more complex flavours in desserts. Modelled after Asian ice desserts, the delicate balance of the displayed objects reveals the region’s economic and cultural tensions with its colonial past.

Nazif Can Akçalı
@ncaisme
Colonnes vivantes (Living columns)
Inspired by Ukrainian biologist Sergei Winogradsky's 'Winogradsky Column', these works celebrate microbiomes and interspecies co-creation. Prints and bacteria aquariums are developed by composting the ingredients that constitute individuals' diets and elements of nearby ecosystems (in this case, mud from Parc Clémenceau Lake, France). While we observe the formation of bacterial ecosystems over months, we are invited to question the boundaries of the self and the environment.

Seraina Grupp
@ina_sera__
Down Side
Inviting the spectator to go down on the knees and experience the downside of the table, the work functions as a political gesture that redirects the attention to the hidden dynamics of the food system. The tables are constructed with found material and reflect the geopolitical and ecosystemic precariousness of Wester's diets while holding on to playfulness and intimacy as necessary starting points for thinking otherwise