28/03/2024
©Lucia Fainzilber, Argentina. Form Photo Award 2024.
Lucia Fainzilber
The Cookbook is an homage to the new visual hegemony that food carries in
contemporary art: a trendsetting agent, an art form, the subject of food has even
landed leading roles in television series and awarded it its own food p**n and
foodie hashtag. Each of these dishes in The Cookbook presents a different
combination of ingredients, all of which co-exist in an attempt to create a
harmonic feast for the eye. Food has historically been charged with cultural
identity, which we symbolically ingest through its consumption. Cookbooks used
to be family albums, instruction books written primarily for housewives to refer to
their daily kitchen tasks. Nowadays, we challenge these traditional formats by
breaking them down into data-rich components, employing stop-motion
photography, recipe animation and bright illustrations to define the future and
present state of the digital cooking instruction.
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