Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
Thursday, August 16 from 5:30-7p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY
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Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI), invites you to an early dinner at Cuchifritos + Project Space. And yes, food and drink are permitted in the art gallery space! Listen to Catalonian artists Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet, and their New York counterparts Alicia Grullón, Enrique Figueredo, Antonia Pérez, and Harley Spiller talk about their practices and their experiences at the Essex Street Market. Join in the conversation, or ask questions about the recipes served. The format of this event mixes the quintessential act around which countless dialogues and ideas have traditionally emerged in societies: eating, with the customary artist presentation. In this case, both are melded into one organic happening in a spirit of conviviality. Food is Permitted in the Gallery Space is inspired by Food Cultura, a project initiated by Antoni Miralda and Montse Guillén.
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Image: Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet, @ Forever Blowing Bubbles
A performance by Alicia Grullón & Antonia Pérez
Saturday, August 18 from 11a-8p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY
The Essex Street Market and all that it contains: produce, vendors, stalls, packaging, shoppers and history will be embodied by a performer, who will be gradually encased in crocheted plastic until no longer visible. Taking into consideration re-zonings and hyper-gentrification in New York City, Grullón and Pérez ask, "What will remain and emerge in the community from this transformation/transmutation?"
A project by Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet
Saturday, August 18, 6-8p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY
The Inmarchitables (fadeless) project assumes amaranth—a staple food within Mayan and Aztec cultures that was later banned by Spanish colonists—as a symbol of what persists; those things that resist the efforts of "progress" to make everything that is apparently not useful or productive disappear.
During their residency at Cuchifritos, Daviu and Calvet have been collecting items discarded by Market vendors. On Saturday, August 18, in part from these materials, the artists will present a sculpture in the shape of a skyscraper made with amaranth. In the tradition of Mayans and Aztecs who consumed edible sculptures of the gods in order to redeem their sins, all who visit the gallery space will be invited to partake.
All upcoming programs are part of Whose Language Does the Produce Speak? Conversations Between La Boqueria and the Essex Street Market, a project presented by Artists Alliance Inc., Food Cultura, and Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with Center for Book Arts.