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A full-course meal, precisely arranged, served in five stages: starter, main, dessert, cheese, coffee. But here, nothing rings true. The table is set for absurdity, and digestion turns grotesque.

Menu is a photographic series that twists the codes of gastronomy to reveal a choreography of the incongruous. The dishes are there — or almost — but the ingredients have mutated: objects, animals, tools, plants — everything goes, except logic. What was meant to nourish becomes metaphor; what was meant to seduce disgusts, amuses, disorients.

Beneath the surface, a gleefully cruel critique of our habits: automated consumption, empty rituals, aesthetics of hollowness. The meal, once a sacred moment of conviviality, is dissected, stripped bare, then reassembled with biting irony.

The images resemble ceremonial paintings, where each course becomes a riddle. Comedy brushes against the sinister, the familiar teeters into the surreal. Recognition turns to doubt. Laughter catches in the throat.

With Menu, it’s not hunger that’s being questioned, but the way we dress it up, stage it, make it palatable.
And if nothing remained of our feasts but their absurd decorations, their hollow rituals?
So — let’s eat. But here, the indigestion is mental.

exhebition view Paris Art Fair

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Color digital photographs, silver print on dibons
12,8 x 17,3 in
2016