Pot Luck

2008/2001 | video installation



«For Pot Luck(2001), Sonja Feldmeier asks strangers to recreate the topography of their homeland with their favorite food and to comment on the process.

The video shows people who devote themselves entirely to this task - the memory of their homeland is combined with a childlike desire to play with food. In an act of communication, the protagonists bring their remembered, internal image of home into an external form, which they finally internalize again by eating up the food landscape. The humorous sequences tell of great themes with playful ease: of travel, migration and home, of the construction of memory, the search for identity and self-discovery, of the euphoria of departure, of homesickness and mourning.» (Sibylle Ryser) 

«In Pot Luck we see a succession of people who have lost themselves in the task Feldmeier has set them. Asked to ‹play with their food›, the strangers have become surprisingly child-like, free and creative.» (Angela Kingston)


Exhibitions

2008 Art with Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
2006 Re_dis_trans: Voltage of Relocation and Displacement, apexart, New York
2001 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel

Award
Werkbeitrag, Aargauer Kuratorium, 2011