Miralda/Food Culture Museum

(Terrasa, 1943)

Food poetics is Antoni Miralda's area of exploration, food and the action of eating as a cultural fact, he delves into the concept of ritual and celebration, with a playful and participatory sense that shows the political and critical nature of his work. In his projects he opts for public and participatory formats involving everyone from scientists to shamans. Foodcultura is a platform that emerged following Expo 2000 in Hanover, where it created the Food Pavilion, a pavilion dedicated to food through the connections between science, ritual, technology, art and tradition. He presented for the exhibition The Infinity Table, an infinity-shaped display table with a perimeter of more than 50 meters, with 25 glass display cases with more than 1,600 objects related to food. The FoodCultura concept explores questions about human identities, their universal rituals, their relationship with native memory, their processes of miscegenation, their preservation and cohesion strategies, their vehicles to transmit or subvert traditions or their contemporary social practices. It is the project that Miralda has been developing since then and that is metamorphosing into different formats depending on the context. Such as 'Flavors and languages' (1997-2014) and 'FoodCultura Satélite Boquería' (2014-2018). The first, presented at Macba in 2013, revolved around the preservation of local culinary traditions from different parts of the world and the codification of a poetic memory about the ways of food. For Banquete he carried out an action that delved into the primary food, bread as a carrier of messages and the tongue as an organ of taste and a system of communication between cultures. It consisted of introducing into the dough of the bread that was made daily in two ovens installed in the courtyard of the CCCD, messages printed on paper - received from anywhere in the world and written in multiple languages - so that they could be distributed in different establishments in the city. from Madrid.