CHRISTELLE MAS fotonäitus "SCIENCE FICTION FOOD"

Christelle Mas was born in 1984 in France and she lives and works in Finland. Since 2005, she has been researching on food, especially on its negative aspects, and used it as a topic for different videos, installations, poems and photos.  

“When being assimilated, food is not considered as an ordinary element anymore but becomes unfamiliar to the body. During the digestive process, it undergoes numerous transformations and turns into something different. However, could it not only experience changes, but transform our own body as well? In my work, I have modified food by using different media. Food is something mysterious, which might even have a conscience or be malicious against human beings, like a conspirator. Although food is ordinary, in my work it gets a distressing or controversial dimension. Could something as familiar as food become aggressive.

In my projects, instead of confirming this vital aspect, I want to give food a shadowy or ambiguous appearance. I envisage food as a flexible fictional material. In how many ways can I transform it?”