Dinner’s Served, acrylic on ceramic plates, 2020
Dinner’s Served II, 90 x 190 cm each, Linoleum print on cotton fabric, September 2020
"Dinner's served I" shows how consumerism has dictated animals' destiny. Rather than calling us out on mean consumption, it aims to show how consumerism has changed animals' life purpose into providing humans with goods. Each plate represents a Peruvian dish written at the top to allude to how important gastronomy is in our culture though how little we think about how it got to our plate.
"Dinner's served II" shows the process behind the food we get to our plates. During this century, we live to consume, and we are not aware of what is behind these consumptions; which is why in this piece, I bring attention to the paths of these living animals reaching to the plate where we eat from, through stamps and repetition which symbolizes industrial and consumer processes. It is not a matter of criticizing meat consumption but using this massive industry as a channel to reflect on everything we consume: from who worked in the process, to the transportation, to its use and disposal.