Eating: Otherness is a 32-page, color publication with writings by the eponymous exhibition’s curator Emily Alesandrini and Danni Shen, an essay by food writer Suqi Karen Sims, photography by Jakob Dahlin, catalog design by Jennifer Bell-Cole. The book is available for purchase via print on demand.

Published April 2023.

Physical copies will be shipped by USPS.

Eating: Otherness is a group exhibition at EFA Project Space from March 16 to April 29, 2023. Expanding on and sometimes reconfiguring various aesthetic traditions and popular representations of foodstuffs, the works in this exhibition take on critical, sociocultural investigations of food-related topics such as meal preparation, wellness culture, and culinary appropriation, while highlighting various forms of sustenance and their meaningful sources. At the heart of this project is also a celebration of food-centered relations via abundance, as well as intergenerational, ancestral, and embodied knowledge. For artists of various diasporas in the city, food is especially situated among these convoluted factors, and it is at these junctures that works by Destiny Belgrave, May Maylisa Cat, Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Hayoon Jay Lee, and TJ Shin intervene.

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