Exhibition Darwin's canteen
Argh gallery, Berlin, 2015
Extract from Gauthier Lesturgie interview for BFAW 2015 (Berlin Food Art Week)
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GL: In your video Chicken’s dance, we look at chicken being roasted in a supermarket. We can recognize the site thanks to the sound atmosphere we identify immediately. Can you tell us more about this moment, a common daily life scene you decided to record ?
MLB: I was very amused by this scene, as there is something very iconic in a roasted chicken… It’s almost already turned into an object in our collective memory.
We look at it rotating, almost tanning under some kind of artificial UV. It all happens in a daily cycle: the supermarket employee puts them under the lights at 9h A.M, at 11h30 A.M he takes them out, cut them… At 12h, other workers arrive to pick them up, at 2 P.M the oven is spotless, brand new, waiting for the next day..
The addition of the sound environment of supermarket helps bridge the gap between these two eras.
Gauthier Lesturgie
Independent art journalist and translator based in Berlin.
Writer for contemporary art journals such as Sleek, Inferno,
Contemporary and Espace art actuel, Inter art actuel, Mouvement, etc media, 02.
gauthierlesturgie.net
