TERROIR (2015) | Nicolas Cheng

TERROIR

(2015)

Terroir; 2015; at the Llyod hotel & Cultural Embassy, Amsterdam.

As Bourdieu states: ’’taste becomes a social weapon that defines and set boundaries between the high and the low, the legitimate from the illegitimate’’. How our tastes, social eating habits, cutlery and manners have been shaped by hierarchical value of systems?

Terroir looks at notion of distance, near and faraway and sets out to explore mechanisms and geographies of commodity goods and productions. The serving of locally harvested food from Amsterdam’s local farm, and crafted cutlerys, tablecloths and silver napkins coded with economic production and material meanings in a dining setting, become metaphors to symbolise and discuss dissolving locality, region of origin and exoticism. 30