‘Seoul, Mumbai to New Delhi’

New Dehi, Vivek Sharma. An Exhibition ‘Seoul, Mumbai to New Delhi’ was organized by Korean Cultural Center India which presented an archive of processes and experiments that began as public interventions in Mumbai. Exhibition elicited a question into our relationship with food, how the action and function of eating - feeding - gathering - nurturing may evoke and provoke nostalgia, memory. Can food really define us, our relations with others – whilst provoking human vulnerabilities?

Seven artists Jungjin Ahn, Shiv Ahuja, Kyungwoo Chun, Youngdon Jung, Chankyu Kim, Jaeyeon Kim and Taejun Yun exhibited 4 projects - tiffin boxes, plates, paper packets and leftover food, which invited and engaged people to rethink about these items whose value is often ignored or taken for granted. 

Personal stories about veg pulao were hand written on the plates by 12 chefs in Mumbai. Later, 12 selected participants were invited to dine together and share a meal of veg pulao on these plates with stories. The participants uncovered the hidden stories as they consumed the pulao. The artist aims to share this interactive experience with chefs and participants of Delhi, exploring the relationship with veg Biryani.

Calligraphy students were asked to write text in the air, using a light pen. They were free to decide the flow and content of the text produced, whilst the artist photographed them using his notable technique of long portraiture that lies in the prolonged exposure time with minutes that match the number of their age.