Learners, Builders

Food display; It’s all there - breaking, sharing, rebuilding, moulding, communicating about future.

To speak of this food, this gathering, as if the very earth hums beneath it,
as if stories untold reside in the curve of a pickled onion,
the whisper of a seaweed chip.

Listen. This ain't just food laid out for the eye to skim over.
This here is where a conversation started, a hand offered across a divide.
You gotta come together, see?

You cant have your own piece.
And don't be shy now, go on and touch the food. 

Lean in close, love. Closer still.
Smell the salt of the sea clinging to the crumble, the sharp tang of the vinegar that woke up those onions.
These ain't just tastes; they're memories waiting to be stirred.

And when your hands get sticky, good.
That means you've been part of the making,
the taking apart, the putting back together. 

Now, you gotta look at it.
Not just a glance, but a long, slow gaze.
See the way the colors play, the shapes they make.
Maybe what you thought it was at first ain't what it truly is.
Ain't nothing wrong with being wrong, you hear?
Sometimes the sweetest truths hide behind a mistaken glance.

This ain't just about eating. This is about building.
Building bridges between what you know and what you're about to understand.
Each taste, each texture, a layer added to the story. 

DETAILS

FORMAT:
food display

vegan, sweets

EXHIBITED

M-Cult, Minna Tarkka Lectures
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 2025

MENU

Miso Soup Jelly

Seaweed Crumble

Seaweed Chips

Archipelago Bread

Radishes with Butter

Pickled Onions

Carrot patty

Ginger-Wasabi Buttercream

Carrot-Blood Orange Relish

Fennel and Blood Orange Salad

Plantain-Cracker Sand

Caramelized Red Onions

Pickled Radishes

Olive Oil-Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Supernut Cookies 

PHOTOS

Haliz Yosef