Feast and Famine

Feast and Famine Gallery Visit 

   

 Feast & Famine explores food as a social, political, and bodily phenomenon. The exhibit sees food as a commodity. Meaning the relationship between food, death, sex, and that food’s relationship to global economics. Showing us as the viewers to see each of the artists point of views on what they see life is like comparing it to food. The art pieces that I chose was based on my project of what I found interested while one of them caught my attention and related to my semester project on self love and the struggles of finding one's beauty.

 This art piece was by Lauren Greenfield made in 2016 was about the struggles that people go through, which is starving themselves as well as eating their feelings away. This was the piece that interested me the most while it also related to my point of on my semester project. Which involves "inner beauty' as this was one of the examples that explains why I feel as though others see themselves. While also explaining the struggles that people would go through to themselves and how they easily feed themselves through depression or starve themselves.

   As my project is going to be on inner beauty and what others see themselves as I want to show the audience what is displayed to others as a way to show their beauty outside of their own point of view and seeing it from the other perspective. While also showing to others what they are within themselves, to show that they are "beautiful" in their own way and that people struggle everyday with trying to "fit in" to adapt with society's life on what is "beautiful" and what is known as "normal."

  In 2012, she received one of the highest honors in documentary film "The Queen of Versailles". In 2003, American PHOTO Magazine named her one of the "The 25 Most Important Photographers Now". In 2005, she shared the number three spot of the "100 Most Important People in Photography" (American Photo Magazine).Her photographs have been widely published and exhibited in many museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 

While this piece was also one of the ones that interested me the most as well. It discusses more on Race. "Rap on Race with Rice" by Dominique Duroseau also caught my attention as this was one those pieces that touches on the subject that nobody ever likes to talk about but needs to be. I felt as though it made me understand the concept the artist was trying to come across with as well as showing us as the viewers that we are all the same. That race is nothing but a simple black and white film but in today's society is describe to be something awful.

As she seperates the rice and than in the middle puts them altogether it shows us that it is nothing that has effected the rice. Which also relates to race in general that we are the same, black or white we bleed the same we survive and struggle the same as one another. 

  Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti.

Her art explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and dehumanization. Her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include satellite art and pulse Play in Miami The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum. She states in her bio “The work addresses issues that have remained persistent, morphed, and folds in residuals of colonial influence, women's issues, and criticism of imperialist white-supremacist patriarchal cultures. I work within the cusp of my cultures as Haitian.” While also relating to the novel that we read Interventionists "Humans are creatures of habits, fit in with their habits or fit outside of the habits and you will disappear from their view" (Interventionist)