gastropoetics

PLATFORM centre is excited to present gastropoetics, a group exhibition of new works by Alireza Bayat (MB), Areum Kim (AB), Svati Shah (IMD) and Yafa Café (MB) curated by our Curator in Residence, Noor Bhangu (MB/NO).

EXHIBITION | 12 January - 24 February, 2024

OPENING RECEPTION AND TALK | 12 January, 6PM - 9PM

ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE | Svati Shah (more details TBA)

WORKSHOP | Zine workshop with Christina Hajjar, 13 January, 12PM - 3PM

In the 21st century, food has emerged as a site through which to recuperate lost solidarities and shared histories. Owing to the catastrophic ruptures dealt by post-9/11 racisms and ongoing genocides, the practices of sharing food across cultural borders has become a palliative salve to sweeten and digest ethnic difference. Gastropoetics, as an exhibition and public program, focuses on the popular medium of ethnic cookbooks to question the proposed fallacy that cultural differences, racial inequities, and psychoaffective harms of displacement can be treated by learning about the culinary cultures of the Other. The exhibition will feature four researcher-artists, including Alireza Bayat, Areum Kim, Svati Shah, and Yafa Cafe, to share their reflections on the culinary tropes expounded in ethnic cookbooks and other printed matter.