- The Appetite for Art: Polentina
You do not stumble across Polentina. You go looking for it, down the dusty tracks of a Bow industrial estate, until you reach a buzzer with no obvious promise of lunch behind it. Press it, and the door opens onto a room where two kinds of making happen at once:… Read more: The Appetite for Art: Polentina - The Appetite for Art: Nathalie Basoski
A photograph, to Nathalie, is not a finished image to be framed and kept but a material: to be printed, cut, stitched, and built with. Shooting on film and printing her pictures onto cloth, Nathalie sews, by hand and by machine, the photographs into quilted surfaces of found denim, old… Read more: The Appetite for Art: Nathalie Basoski - The Appetite for Art: Paola Sánchez
For Paola A. Sánchez Ariza, food is not something simply to be eaten, but a material to be composed, stacked, and built with: a visual language. Born in Bogotá and working between Colombia and London, Sánchez Ariza trained first as a pastry chef at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, before… Read more: The Appetite for Art: Paola Sánchez - The Appetite for Art – Mareida London
Whilst I was working at Miga, the family-run Korean restaurant in Hackney, last year, I struck up a conversation with a couple over one of my most beloved Chilean artists, Cecilia Vicuna. Like all brilliant conversations about food and art, they (Prenay Agarwal and his husband Benjamín Figari) mentioned the… Read more: The Appetite for Art – Mareida London - The Appetite For Art – Inês Neto dos Santos
Feature photograph: Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop For Inês Neto dos Santos, food is not just sustenance, or even culture, but the very material through which the world is constructed. Born in Lisbon and based between London and Brussels, dos Santos studied Graphic Design and Illustration at London College of… Read more: The Appetite For Art – Inês Neto dos Santos
