Zola delivers us, with the Paris belly, a social painting whose backdrop is none other than the stories of everyday life. Indeed, Zola was one of the first novelists to include in the composition of his novel the ordinary beings and facts, the insignificant quarrels of fishmongers and butchers at Les Halles.
The artist Maria Alcaide, current resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, designs a performative walk and invites us to travel back in time to discover the gastrosocial transformations of the center of Paris until today.
On the menu of this walk, we will ask ourselves to what extent the food metaphor expresses the world view of contemporary society to finish with a small dessert: a painting of an era dominated by its appetites.
Artist presentation
Maria Alcaide is a storyteller. His projects usually take the form of installations to mix video, sculpture, performance or gastronomy. His work begins with a research on an existing subject, real or immaterial, a fact or a place to lead to a story. She invents a universe by combining different characters, objects of art or decoration, non-functional objects, books, women, workers, dissident bodies, animals. The adventures she tells us reflect our fears, our desires but never fail to remind us that laughter is necessary to reveal the atrocity that human nature can sometimes take.