Slow Food presents the artwork Exhibition: What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world
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The exhibition What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world will be launched March 29th (6 to 9 pm) at the Stockholm Spritmuseum and will be visible until the April 8. The work officially inaugurates Slow Food activities within the project Food is Culture, funded by the European program Creative Europe, with the contribution of the Italian Fondazione CRC di Cuneo. Artistic installations which allow the public hands-on experience the displayed products, a touchscreen to virtually meet the producers and the possibility to discover the products catalogued on the online recipes database Slow Food Ark of Taste website: this is the exhibition that will travel all around Europe in the coming year.
The exhibition highlights the importance of gastronomic heritage and diversity, and the substantial risk of it being lost. Every visitor has the possibility of printing a special recipe made with some Ark of Taste products. Alongside the artworks, at the opening visitors will be invited to enjoy the so-called Food Tales, based on the internationally-recognized concept of the Human Library.
The exhibition What you didn’t know existed: endangered food from around the world is designed by Slow Food in collaboration with experience designer Josefin Vargö. The exhibition will also be hosted in Belgrade (Serbia, October 2019), Brussels (Belgium, Spring 2020) and Pollenzo (Italy, Summer 2020) but is open to requests from any museum that would be interested in hosting it.
Through the Food is Culture project Slow Food and its partners want to give a new life to the products in question, giving the public the possibility to discover them, to visit the places whence they originate, and listen to their stories. The Food is Culture project aims to make European citizens aware that food heritage is a means of expressing their belonging to Europe and better understanding the wealth and uniqueness of Europe’s cultural diversity. We must pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting our shared food heritage.
Food is Culture is a project funded by the European program Creative Europe, with the contribution of the Fondazione CRC di Cuneo, led by Slow Food with its partners Kinookus, Europa Nostra, Nova Iskra Creative Hub, Transpond AB.
The Ark of Taste is an online catalogue that is growing day by day, gathering nominations from people who see the flavors of their childhood disappearing, taking with them a piece of the culture and history of which they are a part. Anyone can contribute by suggesting a product or making a donation. For more information, please visit the Ark of taste website .