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From Phnom Penh to Seoul: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art in the Asia Pacific

Two decades of contemporary art across the Asia Pacific, from Phnom Penh to Seoul. How the region built its own centres of gravity.

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Food Art, Artists, Art, Culture Leila Antakly Food Art, Artists, Art, Culture Leila Antakly

Food Art Is Not a Trend

There is a moment, if you have ever stood in front of Laila Gohar's work, when you forget entirely that what you are looking at was made to be eaten. But the story of food art is older, stranger, and far more serious than any single moment of cultural virality can contain. From Roman frescoes to Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art movement to butter sculpted into fragments recalling ancient Greek marble — food has always been a carrier of meaning. Labor and land, culture and class, memory and desire, compressed into something you hold in your hand. This is a cultural essay about what happens when the most basic human material asks the questions the cameras do not know how to frame.

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Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.
— Leila Antakly