Substance and Sustenance: Food as Art at foaSOUTH

Substance and Sustenance investigates the myriad roles of food in arts and culture. Food, as a foundational resource and tool for sustained life, has maintained a close connection with the arts since the first civilizations, with cave paintings using vegetable juices as a medium and illustrating hunts as subjects. Appearing as a symbolic centerpiece for still lives in the Dutch Golden Age, food has come to represent wealth, the passage of time, and global relations. Above all else, food has developed its own culture outside the art world, becoming a universal symbol for abundance and communit…