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FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Inviting visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explores current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table
★★★★ a curious delight, just don't go in hungry.
The Independent
a punchy, fun look at the food chain
The Times
From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.
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Exhibition Highlights
Mechelse Maatiaiskana, 22nd generation Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. © Koen Vanmechelen
Alas! My poor Brother, poster advertising Bovril, designed by W.H. Caffyn, 1905, UK. © Henry Caffyn/Image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Urban Mushroom Farm © GroCycle
The Sausage of the Future, Carolien Niebling. Photo: Noortje Knulst
Symmetry Breakfast, Michael Zee. © Michael Zee
Ooho! edible water bottle, Skipping Rocks Lab
Hop-picking trip, 2018. Courtesy of Company Drinks, photo Nick Matthews
Merdacotta, ceramic toilet made from surplus cow manure, Giantonio Locatelli et al., © Henrik Blomqvist
Daily Dump Compost at Home, India
Fruits from the Garden and the Field, rainbow wallpaper (detail). © Fallen Fruit, 2019.
Supernatural (detail), Uli Westphal, 2019, commissioned by the V&A
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FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Background image: Concept and Art Direction by Rhea Thierstein. Photography by Aaron Tilley