Installation and video
Documented in analog
2023
The center, both physically and conceptually, is a dining table that hosts a freshly cooked tortilla, highlighted by a theatrical spotlight and crowned by a Spanish flag. Conceptually, tortilla is in the middle of the Spanishist discourse, being the only dish homogeneously present in the State’s territory and becoming that way the perfect target for discreet politization.
Gastronomy and especially Tortilla have constituted for decades a tool for indoctrination of the Spanish nation and identity building.
Franco’s figure is included as a framed portrait, that reminds his presence and responsibility on the process; along with a crucifix they also represent the regime’s symbology.
Food and politics, installation, culture, identity, archive
Antwerp