Food to Remember
March 2022
A journey into re-evoking memories of comfort associated with food, expressing the power the senses have in transporting us back in time and making us feel similar emotions in the present as the ones we once had.
I documented the experience of 10 different participants whilst cooking and eating a meal of their choice, which I then presented in the format of a book. Each experience is accompanied by a description, written by the participants themselves, of the original memory the food evokes in them.
Once the book was printed, I asked each participant to annotate the pages corresponding to their story based on the original memory or the new memories created together with me during the documentation journey; allowing the book to gain even more meaning and soul post-production.
As the feeling of community is at the core of this work, the audience too is invited to reflect and go on a similar journey into their past based on their own personal memories of comfort.
I documented the experience of 10 different participants whilst cooking and eating a meal of their choice, which I then presented in the format of a book. Each experience is accompanied by a description, written by the participants themselves, of the original memory the food evokes in them.
Once the book was printed, I asked each participant to annotate the pages corresponding to their story based on the original memory or the new memories created together with me during the documentation journey; allowing the book to gain even more meaning and soul post-production.
As the feeling of community is at the core of this work, the audience too is invited to reflect and go on a similar journey into their past based on their own personal memories of comfort.
Format: A5 portrait - 148x210mm
Binding: French link stitch, Harcover
Binding: French link stitch, Harcover
All photographs used for this project were taken by Susanna Aurora Montaner Messori
Photographs: Digital
Photographs: Digital