Edible is an exhibition that explores how Asian-American artists use ceramics incorporating food aesthetics to explore cultural identity, memory, and American society. Our relationship to what we eat is the most intimate possible: the food we consume literally constitutes our bodies, and the ways we consume it link us to each other, our loved ones, and our ancestors. Ceramic sculpture in the form of food has become a way for these artists to explore complex relationships to their identities and bodies.
For artist Anika Hsiung Schneider, representations of food and ordinary kitchen objects are a way of understanding her, “Chineseness through [her] Americanness.” Jacqueline Tse’s porcelain dessert sculptures comment on American consumerism and her own relationship to sugar, while also serving as memento mori through the color white, associated with death in Chinese culture. Schneider, Tse, and other artists, draw on their experiences to make new icons of food that remix historical objects, symbols, and materials. Evocative and playful, potent and bittersweet, Edible includes artists working across the United States who take diverse approaches to understanding identity through ceramics and food.
Participating artists include: Ling Chun, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Cathy Lu, Anika Hsiung Schneider, and Jacqueline Tse.
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