The exhibition “All You CanNOT Eat. Fake Food on Fabric” is conceived as a restaurant in which nothing edible or drinkable is actually served. Drawing on the collection of the Textile Museum St. Gallen, the tables of a range of guests are laid with exhibits depicting food. Different eras, social classes and tastes encounter one another and enter into dialogue. Human nourishment is a fleeting moment: food and drink must be consumed before they spoil and decay. In the act of eating, what is eaten and drunk slips out of its social framework. To mitigate and prevent this “disappearance”, edible things are represented and thus preserved. This participatory project was developed with the involvement of Association Verdre, Marta Birt, Beni Bischof, Tatiana Boiko, Kristina Bucheli, Julie Chauland, Collective Swallow by Anaïs Marti, Estelle Gassmann, Sven Gex, Sarena Huizinga, Infantium Victoria by Dinie van den Heuvel, Terézia Krnáčová, Lapidar (Jessica Celis, Salomon Elsler, Elena Völkle, Nadine Werner), Alfred Leuzinger / open art museum, Léonie Ludovicy, Pauline Lutz, Madame Europe, Madame Tricot, Yves Meier, Pusha Petrov, Carlo Rampazzi, Joan Sallas, Sinnlich Essen (Sabrina Berger, Cajetana Oechslin, Larissa Riesen, Lisa Rubio), Natalia Solo-Mâtine, Sabina Speich, taktik:haptik (Lisa Blaser, Zora Weidkuhn, Nathan Werlen), and Tischgesellschaft (Jana Besimo, Valerie Meta Ehrenbold, Lisa Schöpflin). Through an exhibition and an event series, “All You CanNOT Eat” examines table culture in relation to fake food. It also explores prints and imitations of edible things in fashion.
