“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

― Anthony Bourdain. 

"Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook"

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Clay pot feast is a journey through the popular ceramic cookware that the artist links to a performative practice. A proposal intended to generate sublimating experiences that are permeable with real life. A relational derive justified on the necessity of approaching people while building situations that allow us to go back over a community that has been thrown into disarray a long time ago.

In a context of hybridization, understood as a mixture and contamination of specific cultural practices homogenized in very similar traditions around the world; crafts, due to its ontological singularity and uniqueness, devises anew as a motor of the positive discrimination towards certain cultural patterns to turn them into identity traces.

The artist produces, a first stage, ceramic objects originating from different regions of the planet as its traditional and archetypical form. Then, the artist inserts them in our context–dominated by a particular reality-, through its use, by cooking the dishes as they were originally intended for and sharing them in community. The action becomes as an attempt to cook and eat for the first time a foreign dish, culturally distant, with an unfamiliar flavour for all those present.

Beyond the pleasure of tasting, the delight of the very process of cooking and sharing, the artist brings back the culinary traditions that involve a ritual. Just as the objects mediate in our relationship with food, these also come from a culture and a time. In this case, the act of eating has cognitive dimensions of deeply -social and symbolic- rooting that activates processes of creation and its different variables intensify or attenuate the aesthetical experience.

Clay Pot Feast #1: 

QUEIMADA

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Clay Pot Feast #2:
PALAYOK

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Clay Pot Feast #3: 
TAGINE

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Clay Pot Feast #4: 
ÄGGOST

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Clay pot feast is a journey through the popular ceramic cookware that the artist links to a performative practice. A proposal intended to generate sublimating experiences that are permeable with real life. A relational derive justified on the necessity of approaching people while building situations that allow us to go back over a community that has been thrown into disarray a long time ago.

In a context of hybridization, understood as a mixture and contamination of specific cultural practices homogenized in very similar traditions around the world; crafts, due to its ontological singularity and uniqueness, devises anew as a motor of the positive discrimination towards certain cultural patterns to turn them into identity traces.

In a first phase, the artist produces ceramic objects originating from different regions of the planet as its traditional and archetypical form. After, she inserts them into our context –dominated by a particular reality-, through its use, as cooking the dishes they were originally made for and share them in community. The action becomes as an attempt to cook and eat for the first time a foreign dish, culturally distant, with an unfamiliar flavour for all those present.

Beyond the pleasure of tasting, the delight of the very process of cooking and sharing, the artist brings back the culinary traditions that involve a ritual. In the same way as the objects mediate in our relationship with food, these also come from a culture and a time. Here, the act of eating has cognitive dimensions of deeply -social and symbolic- rooting that activates processes of creation, and its different variables intensify or attenuate the aesthetical experience.   

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Clay pot feast és un periple per l’imaginari de la ceràmica popular utilitària, que l’artista vincula a una pràctica performàtica. Una proposta a la recerca de generar experiències sublimadores permeables amb la vida. Una deriva relacional justificada en la necessitat d’apropar les persones construint situacions que permetin configurar una comunitat des de fa temps desbaratada.

En un context d’hibridació, entesa com a barreja i contaminació de determinades pràctiques culturals que es mimetitzen homogeneïtzant-se en costums molts similars a nivell mundial, l’artesania, per la seva ontològica singularitat i unicitat, es reinventa com a motor de la discriminació positiva envers certs patrons culturals per a convertir-los en trets identitaris.

En una primera fase, l’artista produeix objectes de ceràmica procedents de diferents regions del planeta en la seva forma arquetípica i tradicional. Seguidament els inserta en el nostre context -dominat per una realitat concreta-, a partir de la utilització dels mateixos, en tant que cuinar els plats per als que foren creats en origen i compartir-los en comunitat. L’acció es planteja com a intent de cuinar i consumir per primera vegada un plat forà, culturalment llunyà i de sabor desconegut per a tots els presents.

Més enllà del plaer de degustar, del delit del propi procés de cuinar i compartir, l’artista recupera les tradicions culinàries que comporten un ritual. De la mateixa manera que els propis objectes medien la nostra relació amb els aliments, aquests són també fills d’una cultura i un temps. Aquí, l’acte de menjar posseeix unes dimensions cognitives de profund arrelament social i simbòlic que activa processos de creació i les diferents variables n’intensifiquen o n’atenuen l’experiència estètica.