Innovating food with images of war: A glimpse within Keb Cerda’s Delectable Threats Exhibit
Keb Cerda attempts to fuse images of war and violence with food. He compared weapons of mass-destruction with consumer products. Life-threatening and destructive equipment of war have been turned into delectable treats for the consumer to feast their eyes on.
Cerda’s exhibit presents the commercialization of war through satire and parody. Paintings of assembly lines are seen but strangely enough, the assembly line does not only feature machines capping bottles or frosting sweets but also contraptions assembling gears, weapons and armies.
The mouth-watering eccentric images that attempt to play on food and violence aim to educate the audience about the consumerist behavior of humans both in war and food. This experimental exhibit’s attempt on balancing images of taste and pleasure, and aggression reveals that atrocities of reoccurring war and conflict created by humanity and presents it as though dystopia and malice is an insatiable human craving that can never be satisfied.
Cerda’s solo exhibition also takes advantage of mobile technology, exhibit-goers can use the mobile application called Omniscope that animates the paintings and turns them into video clips.
The exhibit will be open for public viewing from November 23 to December 6 at Artist Space in Ayala Museum. ###
