Play with food

Jerusalem Post staff
Jerusalem Post
01-06-2011
Play with food
Byline: Jerusalem Post staff
Edition: Weekend
Section: Features
Type: News

Not many things evoke such emotions as what we put in our mouths. Food is about our earliest memories, about our family and where we live; it reveals our secrets and exposes our desires, it is a part of every aspect of our lives.

Nowadays food is often more than that: it's a a status symbol, it's trendy, fashionable and there are more television shows and Internet sites about cooking than there are on almost any other subject.
In recent years, designers such as megastar Philippe Starck have started looking at food as objects. Starck said, "We can now see two trends related to food: The engineered fast food that rules the supermarkets and the return to organic, slow food that we can find in farmers' markets. We designers are more interested in the second trend."

The exhibition "Playing with Food" that opens this month in Holon looks at the relationship between food and design. The show explores food as raw material for design and as a tool for understanding society, and also explores the links between eating and architecture.

January 15 to March 5, The Mishkan Gallery, Beit Meirov, Rehov Harzfeld 31, Holon, (03) 651-6851, Tues. to Thurs. 5 to 8 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.(c) Copyright Jerusalem Post. All rights reserved.

Illustrations/Photos:
Caption: Roi and Seffi Yannai: a glove made from eggplants. Yael
Friedmann: organic rings. Nitzan Debbi: molecular. Dani Hochberg and
Odelia Lavi for Shakuff restaurant. Amir Farber and Dan Peretz - Red

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