Maqlouba, Jude Abu Zaineh, Installation shots from Through Clenched Teeth at Forest City Gallery, London, Canada 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020 to Friday, February 7, 2020
Featuring works by Patrice Renee Washington, Jude Abu Zaineh, Karen Azoulay, Florence Yee.
When does the act of consumption become uncomfortable? Through elucidating different materials, means of production, and cultural conventions underpinning food structures, Through Clenched Teeth brings together practices that critically adresss food politics under Western hegemony. 4 artists use several raw nourishment materials (food scraps, clay, flowers, and biological makeup) to address latent narratives involving diaspora, racial oppression, and archeology. Through Clenched Teeth uses common food practices to provide deciphered histories elucidated visual codes explaining the integration of different political systems involved with consumption. Each practice maps specific habits of feeding, weaving through disparate histories to explain how these materials contextualize uncomfortable historical narratives. Each work oxymoronically presents non-edible ingredients as mechanisms for understanding socio-political traditions, showcasing how food economies are linked to more than just sustenance.
Maqlouba | مقلوبة
Jude Abu Zaineh
petri dishes, documentation of Maqlouba, brass nails
2019
16.5’ x 7’
Installation shots at SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada 2019
taken by Philip Habashy