The Center for Visual Art is showing two ambitious exhibitions — each diving deep into the topic of food — that together take visitors across the hemisphere and back home again. (via thknwco)
The showstopper is titled “Banana Craze” and it features nine international artists exploring the broad impacts of banana cultivation in the Caribbean and Latin America. It’s as big and complicated a discussion as it sounds. But it is also eye-opening, especially for consumers who don’t think about bananas beyond what they see in grocery stores.
Artists take the industry to task in a multitude of ways, and the concepts they use to make their points are rich in both detail and color. Many of the pieces were created in the field, where the fruit is grown and shipped, and are represented in the exhibit via digital techniques. The exhibit, curated by Juanita Solano and Blanca Serrano, has its visceral elements, including Honduran artist Leonardo González’s text-based piece that uses actual banana plant materials to spell out, in urgently rendered letters, “NEMAGON,” which is the name of a pesticide blamed for causing injuries in workers.
Artist Tsehai Johnson made ceramic dinnerware with images of the edible and medicinal plants she found on one single block in Denver. The piece is in “Cultivate.” Photo by Ray Mark Rinaldi, special to The Denver Post. The mural sets the tone for the pieces that follow, such as Eileen Rosina’s “Uneaten,” which strings together food refuse — old and dried oranges, onions, artichokes and mushrooms — into a graceful and attractive macrame-like wall hanging. It is beautiful, no doubt, but also an alert to the fact that 35 percent of our food supply is thrown into the garbage at the same time that many humans go hungry.
Viviane Le Courtois also offers recipes, all written out by hand, to accompany her installation titled “Food Forest,” which has actual plants growing in the front window of the CVA. The piece, featuring 18 porcelain planters, is meant to show how much food local residents could produce on their own, and share with others, through some conscientious gardening.
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