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The Danish artist Søren Aagaard (*1980) questions the performative potential of food and art in a wide variety of contexts. Who cooks what, and for whom? A closer look quickly reveals that food is a highly controversial topic. Aagard’s witty and carefully researched exhibition transforms the kitchen, the center of the domestic realm, into a performative-sculptural setting. Who would have thought that cooking and art have so much in common?
In everyday life, cooking is usually functional, but in Aagaard's works, places where food is produced and presented are examined as social and aestheticized spaces. His exhibitions pose important questions about cultural identity and appropriation, social structures and disparities, the distribution channels of ingredients and the tools of processing, as well as workers in kitchens and restaurants around the world. Aagard also probes surprising similarities with the cultural sector.
