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WAIST-ED
Artist's Statement
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No hungry child in the Third World child has ever had to wonder
if I’d be “eating everything on my
plate.” For people like me, one serving is actually never
enough.
WAIST-ED
is a chronicle of food uneaten; food I stored in clear,
plastic bags; food which I would have otherwise ingested at
mealtime. Bagging the excess makes me pause, stops me from
having seconds -- a lesson reinforced as the baggies, heavy
with wasted calories, accumulate.
Overeating, like other forms
of over-consumption, is a disturbing societal trend that
hurts us individually and, by disproportionately wasting
precious resources, contributes to global disparities.
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Left:
Xavier Cortada,
WAIST-ED,
freezer, uneaten food, clear plastic bags, and Sharpie
marker, 2003 (www.cortada.com) |
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WAIST-ED was first exhibited in
Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books,
a traveling group exhibit
originating at the Centre Gallery in Miami-Dade College's
Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL (October 30 - December 19,
2003). It was subsequently
exhibited during
October 10- November 10, 2006at
the gallery's
A WELL-KEPT SECRET: 40 Years of
Collecting, a group exhibit featuring works
by
Andy
Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Claus Oldenburg, Joseph
Beuys, Jean DuBuffet, Keith Haring, Alexander Calder, David Hockney,
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jose Bedia, Jesus Soto, Julian Schnabel, Christo,
Jean Ward, Guido Llinas and more.
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