EATING THE PLACE

An artistic research on wild edible plants in anthropised spaces.

Eating the Place is an artistic practice of cultivating attention toward what usually remains at the margins of perception : wild plants.
Walking through the urban landscape, I notice every leaf, every flower growing between cracks in the pavement. Most of them are edible.
Let’s collect them and go home and make a banquet.

Let’s eat the place.

To eat a place is not to exploit it, but to enter into a relationship with its ecology, history, and social fabric.
The act of cooking is a way to read the landscape, to question dominant food systems, and to activate forms of collective knowledge rooted in place.

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