Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is proud to host Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art from September 7 to December 7, 2013, with a public opening and artists remarks on September 6, 2013 at 7:00pm. The exhibition defines an important new category of contemporary artistic practice – the artist-orchestrated meal. Feast surveys this practice for the first time, assessing its roots in early-twentieth century European avant-garde art, its development over the past five decades within Western art, and its current global ubiquity. Originally organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the presentation at Blaffer Art Museum has been expanded to include artist of relevance to the local context.

In Mary Evans’s ongoing work Gingerbread, the Nigerian-born, London-based artist probes what can be radical about hospitality. Evans interrogates the history of slavery through food by inviting guests to consider ingredients with specific trans-Atlantic histories in her homemade cookies – molasses, sugar, and ginger.

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