Let Them Eat Fake 2023

Let Them Eat Fake

BWG Gallery

13 Soho Square | Soho | London | W1D 3QF

23-26 NOV 2023 PV 23 NOV 6-10PM

You are cordially invited to a dinner you cannot eat. Come feast your eyes on a smorgasbord of heavenly delights. Through exhibiting a banquet of inedible food, Let Them Eat Fake explores the culture of visual food consumption.

Whilst prioritising visual nourishment, how much importance is left on lining our stomachs? An addiction to eating only with our eyes is perpetuated through an infinite loop of online food pornography. Meals are digested through the white light of our screens, tantalising our senses but failing to nourish our bodies.

Food reveals itself as a taboo, being both pleasurable and shameful at once - an object of virtue to be desired from afar, drifting further away from the dining table and straight into the white-walled gallery.

Bad Art Team xxxx

ROOM 1

The Tea Room

Welcome to the most exquisitely tantalising dinner your eyes have ever had the pleasure of beholding. Within this domain you will be tantalised with the rarest non perishables and excruciatingly delectable in-edibles. Line your corneas for you are about to feast you on a banquet you have never seen before.

TOILET BREAK

ROOM 2
The Afters

The afters, that like all afters have gone on for far far too long. It’s a mess and the guests have fallen far from grace. The carpet is stained and be careful what tinnie you’re sippin from

ROOM 3

The Kitchen

Where the magic happens!

The behind the scenes, behind closed doors, behind every beautiful dish comes a fury of blood, sweat and tears thinly veiled by a pushy door.