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Su Richardson
It's In The Bag
13 May - 21 June
To mark the opening of Su Richardson’s solo exhibition at Midlands Arts Centre, we are delighted to announce a show of new sculpture at I DE V / l’étrangère.
Celebrated for her mordant and funny use of crochet to address feminist issues, It’s In the Bag focuses on nutrition and the economics of home-making in an era where convenience foods and delivery apps have boomed to meet the needs of a time-poor labour force in search of comfort and ease… but at what cost? In light of recent discoveries in metabolic health and the microbiome popularised by the likes of Chris van Tulleken and Tim Spektor, the challenges of balancing work with home life have brought new dimensions of complexity into the already vexed question of what to have for dinner.
Richardson presents a menu of enticing and handy takeaway bags crammed with ultra- processed goodies ranging from hamburgers and sausage rolls, noodles and baltis, to psychedelic doughnuts and cute-as-pie cupcakes, rendered in bright cotton and metallic yarns. The works are a characteristically sly invitation to a bit of what you fancy, but with lists of ingredients to make you question your choices. Playfully, they point to a desolation behind empty calories and abundance, to the real trade-offs at play when fresh and unprocessed foods weigh more heavily on the wallet than their oven-ready alternatives.
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