On the Food Chain (2023)

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On the Food Chain

Moving Up the Food Chain is collaboration of different tiny unintentional artists who together create a great work. starts off as a clean white canvas, but through the process of randomly adding food, the work looses its innocence and gains in color. The artist uses this metaphor to make us think about how we start as a tabula raza but never can maintain this virginal innocence. We hurt, we mess up, we fight, we live. These experiences make our life colorful. The artists asks us not to be obedient to societal promises of false virtue. By using the food as a medium the artist is evoking the struggle of consumption within the context of the food waste in current times. The artist stated: “The system sees food as a product and leftovers as waste. But when you use them as a medium it becomes something people want to pay money for. I don’t think in waste, I think in value.” We see this point of view also in its previous work (e.g. I Shit Where I Eat and Puke’em All) where the artist mixes his food leftovers with its body waste.