Exhibition

"Art is restaurants is on the same level as food in museums" - Niles Crane

14 Aug 2015 – 4 Oct 2015

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Turf Projects

Croydon, United Kingdom

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  • Bus stops: Ruskin Road/ West Croydon
  • Tram stop: Centrale
  • East Croydon or West Croydon train stations are a 5 minute walk from the gallery
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“Art in restaurants is on the same level as food in museums” – Niles Crane', is an exhibition exploring the positioning of food and art within each other’s spaces. Although perhaps not traditionally contextualised together, food and art commonly occupy the same environments, even fusing together at times, with food represented in art - or even as art - in both the gallery and restaurant.

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Erik Benjamins
Kathrin Böhm
Alex Brenchley
Celine Condorelli
Mike Cooter
Simon Dybbroe Møller
George Little
Bruce McLean
Bella Pace
Amanda Ross-Ho
Ettore Sottsass for Alessi


Curated by Lauren Godfrey

 

As restaurants or cafes have now become the standard within most major museums, and with art adorning the walls of many a dining establishment, each are exploited in the other’s space as an added level of engagement. But to speak of ‘levels’ of food and art is also to bring about their similarities, as potential sources of enjoyment, fulfilment and creativity yes, but also as being both highly concerned with satisfying personal and cultural tastes - and what value we might put on doing so. 

For this exhibition Turf’s gallery space is transformed into an ambiguous restaurant-style environment, but the menu here undeniably is art. Encouraging our own reflections on the place-based distinctions between art and food, curator Lauren Godfrey has sourced tables and chairs that double up as plinths for other works, whilst Bella Place’s commissioned sign adds a further dimension to the site-specificity of the show. 

Featuring the work of eleven emerging and established artists, and accompanied by a text from Lauren Godfrey, the show draws on historical representations of food in art, as well as current conceptualisations of how the two come together. Considering some of the institutional and conceptual frameworks around food and art, it further draws upon their status as both sensorial and social objects.

Visitors are invited to consider these relationships through their own choices and definitions in the space, whilst a series of events accompanying the exhibition encourage further live interaction with these ideas. 

The exhibition was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Arts Council England and Mayor of London.

Lauren Godfrey is a London-based artist whose recent exhibitions include Entrée, Stage left, a solo show at Kingsgate Workshops, and group show Longing for Leisure at Open Space Gallery, Baltimore, USA.

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Lauren Godfrey

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Bella Pace

Céline Condorelli

Mike Cooter

Erik Benjamins

Amanda Ross-Ho

Kathrin Böhm

Bruce McLean

Alex Brenchley

Simon Dybbroe Møller

George Little

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