We’ve had bread-facing. Bathing in chips. Clearly, there’s a strange satisfaction in watching people getting hands-on with their food.
The latest artist to get food-physical? Spanish artist Mar Cuervo.
Her latest project, titled Destroyer, sees Mar taking delicious-looking food, taking it in her hands, and lovingly smushing it to smithereens.
The whole thing is strangely hypnotic, deeply satisfying, and more than a little bit odd. We are obsessed.
Mar told metro.co.uk: ‘These gifs started as videos.
‘I was in an Artist in Residence in the Netherlands living in a shipping container and doing field work for my PhD.’
She began to collect food that was soft, fragile, and ‘screaming to be destroyed.’
And she smashed that food. She smashed it hard. On camera.
The food-smushing is an expression of anger, allowing Mar to express her outrage and dissatisfaction at the world… Read the full story