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Maria Giovanna Giugliano | IT

Ordinary Pleasures

About the project

Heavenly buffets satisfy and ignite the appetite with edible stimuli, while the experience of eating releases hormones and triggers emotions. Meals actively influence the human condition. Formed by complex patterns of molecules, food is made out of the same elements which constitute life. When combined with our bodies, it transforms into energy.

Ordinary Pleasures retraces the visceral connection between humans and nature through food. Lost in stomach and mind cravings retail, consumers got detached from the origin of goods and their journey before becoming one with their flesh. How often does contemporary society allow space to contemplate what we are about to ingest?
May the renewed sacredness of food be the spark for a deeper referential sensitivity towards nature at the banquet of satisfaction.
Eating is a universal act, but also an intimate and personal one.
How does it make you feel?

Biography

Maria Giovanna is a visual artist from Italy. She commutes between Sardinia and New York City and relates everyday details to universal concepts. Her main theme is food as the main dialogue partner between man and nature.

Planned Guided Tours

Saturday, May 25, 2024
12.15 PM and 4PM

Sunday, May 26, 2024
4:15 PM

Location

Schloss Lenzburg

Opening hours
Di-So 10 AM – 5 PM