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a thing shared

Reception: Thursday, September 8, 6 – 9pm Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12 - 5pm or by appointment

September 3, 2022 - October 1, 2022

Show Catalog

featuring:

connie yu

lucia garzón

maria fernanda nuñez

FORTUNE

nickie sigurdsson + kristina stallvik

serena hocharoen


curated by tess wei


This exhibition highlights the intersection of makers who engage with cooking and food as sites of cultural production and preservation. Of particular focus, is the way in which these visual and culinary artists engage with printed, digital, and alternative formats to re-present processes, recipes, menus, and meals shared.


Food (here broadly, edible matter intended for nourishment, community-making, and storytelling) participates in a constant process of transformation from planting and harvesting to preparing and eating. Therefore, the ways in which edible matter and its related rituals are documented, shared, and (re)interpreted become essential appendages to food, whose physical form is otherwise ephemeral. Through processes ranging from risograph printing to the gradual rehydration of silk handkerchiefs, a thing shared offers snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis), natural remedies, þorski (cod), garlic shells, and more.


The works presented in this exhibition have differing intentions, existing as: archives for personal and communal memories; prompts for others to engage in similar creative acts (in the way recipes are more step-by-step suggestions than instruction manuals); invitations to congregate at the table, so to speak; and bodies of research to sustain traditions of food growing, preparing, and partaking.

AUTOMAT Collective

Suite 105, Crane Arts Building

1400 N. American Street

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Gallery Hours:

Saturdays 12-5pm and by appointment

Contact Us:

automatcollective(at)gmail(dot)com

© 2025 by AUTOMAT Collective.

AUTOMAT takes part in Second Thursdays. On the second Thursday of each month, AUTOMAT hosts opening receptions  and programming in its gallery space within the Crane Arts Building. 

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