Opening: Wider Perspectives #3 - Chewing With Political Teeth

“Chewing With Political Teeth”
Exhibition by Diana Al-Halabi
Artwork co-produced by Veronika Babayan
Curated by Leana Boven

“Chewing With Political Teeth” is an exhibition by Diana Al-Halabi showcasing her ongoing research on famine and hunger strikes. Constituting two sides of the same coin, famine and hunger strikes render the digestive system as another political site of struggle. While famines are a top-down force often engineered by governments to subordinate its people, hunger strikes are a bottom-up form of individual resistance often undertaken by political prisoners as a last resort for claiming their rights.

For the exhibition's main piece, Diana Al-Halabi has invited artist Veronika Babayan, whose main medium is fruit leather, to co-produce “The Digestive is Political.” The question of preservation is foregrounded in this piece, feeding into the notion of food security, the domestic, the public, and the political. Who is able to preserve food beyond its season? Why do we preserve food? Is preservation a result of a surplus or is preservation a fear-taming method?"

With live music by Samah Boulmona

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