All Utopia Goes Through the Belly

All Utopia Goes Through the Belly, 2008-2024

Glass, wood, acrylic, PVC, foodstuffs, carbon, stones

Variable dimensions

All Utopia Goes Through the Belly is an installation I have been working on since 2008. It is a large set of glass jars in which wooden models of imaginary buildings, stones of various kinds, and food ingredients -cereals, oils, fruits, vegetables- have been inserted. Although the glass jars function as capsules that prevent exchange with the outside world, their transparency reveals the contents as if they were laboratory components. A kind of hierarchical power structure puts the focus on the current humanitarian/food crisis, intensified after the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and the struggle for grains and staple foods.

view at Estudio Carlos Garaicoa, Carabanchel, Madrid, 2024

Photo: Oak-Taylor Smith

Installation view at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, 2024

Poto: David Bonet

Installation view at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno: CAAM, 2024

Photo: Paco Rocha

Estudio Carlos Garaicoa
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