Portal Tables

Explore the environmental and emotional potential of human-bacterial commensality (eating together) in this thought provoking display by interdisciplinary design collective The Decorators and the Stanley Picker Gallery

Display

  • Saturday, 18 September 2021 – Sunday, 26 September 2021 at V&A South Kensington

  • V&A South Kensington

  • Past event

+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • Room 25, NAL Staircase

  • Free event

Food fermentation gained a momentum in the past year of social isolation. This project reflects on the paradox of bacteria in our lives and the growing research into bacteria as a potential resource for plastic recycling. On display is a video-essay and Sofa-Bread – part of a line of furniture that explores intimacy in food-making.

Commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University

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Header image: The Decorators Portal Tables (2021), commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University London