THE TASTE OF WORDS
Artist news
From 09 April to 10 July 2022
The Cédrac
1, place Pierre Gosnat - 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine - France
+33 (0)1 49 60 25 06
Press release
For her first solo exhibition, Juliette Green chose to work on the themes of food and food through nine works created for the occasion. These give us stories inspired by social issues: What would change on a daily basis if we no longer needed to eat? What would our ancestors think if they were made to taste the food of the twenty-first century? How does a recipe stand the test of time?
The stories raised by these issues, all in words and drawings, unfold on supports such as paper, canvas, wood or slate. An in situ drawing can also be seen on the windows of the exhibition space.
The tone of some of the works is light and poetic. For example, one of them tells the story of a little girl who tries to guess what flavor the clouds would have if she could taste them. In other plays, history adopts the conventions of the most rigorous scientific analysis but this seriousness is only apparent because everything is invented. This is particularly true of a drawing that imagines the number of people needed for us to bite into a sandwich, from the farmer to the transporter, from the veterinarian to the agronomist.
While the exhibition invites us to think deeply about consumption, lifestyles, transmission and globalization, it is also highly accessible: the texts of the works are easy to read, so that visitors of different generations can understand them.