Noodle, Rice, and Bread / The Cultural Dialogue Between Art and Food

January 15 - February 26, 2022

Studio Artego LLC

32-78 48th Street Long Island City NY 11103

Curated by Soojung Hyun / Artists: Seongmin Ahn / Hayoon Jay Lee / Eung Ho Park / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

This exhibition will examine some remarkable art works related to images of food. The show’s title, Noodles, Rice, and Bread, presents three foods appropriated from our international diet. Each of them offers a metaphor in relation to the different cultures from which they are taken. Each food originates from a region, which holds its own cultural climate. These variations are fused in a manner that reinforces our ability to recognize our humanity. Our exhibition opens various intersections by giving attention to both Eastern and Western cultures, and in doing so, reveals an important ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and various traditions involving food.

Despite different backgrounds, each food gives us the necessary nutrients to sustain life. Just as food allows people to join together, we believe that art has the potential to do much the same. In either case, art and food become facilitators by which to understand our global environment more deeply. Both have the propensity to give pleasure by sharing what they have in common. The space of art and the aura of food connect people in ways that give them a true sense of pleasure in life. The current exhibition has been curated with this idea in mind, hoping this dialogue between art and food will translate its meaning effectively.