Mélanie Boucher (essay excerpt from “Art, Theory and the Newfound Interest in Food,” p. 173):

[e(ate)n] … consists of an installation that resembles a banquet table replete with recipients, dishes and other utensils, and recalls the art of hospitality … the tomato-paste covered vessels were red, like living flesh .. over time [they] turned purple, almost black … conjur[ing] up the transformation of the human body, aging and drying out as the years pass … With e(ate)n … we witness a changeover from container to contained and an inside-outing of the flesh … now in plain sight. By analogy it becomes ours. And being subject to putrefaction, it brings to mind our eventual death. Looking at it arouses feelings and emotions, and we are interpellated, touched at the very core of our being.

e(ate)n exhibited at:

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario. Sept 24 - Dec. 2005; in “Feast: Food in Art”

Expression Art Gallery, Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec. August 29-October 12, 2003; in “Orange” (Mélanie Boucher, curator and essay in publication; pdf link)