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'Art Now: Cooking Sections: Salmon: A Red Herring' at the Tate Gallery


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Art Now: #cookingsections: Salmon: A Red Herring


Cooking Sections, Courtesy: Surface, Photo: Paul Plews.

27 November 2020 – 28 February 2021


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This November, London-based #cookingsections present their new project Salmon: A Red Herring at #tate Britain, reflecting on the impact of salmon farms on the environment. This will be the first in #tate Britain’s ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting new developments in British art since the gallery reopened this summer.

Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) is a duo of spatial practitioners examining the systems that organise the world through #food. Using installation, performance, mapping and video, their research-based practice explores the overlapping boundaries between visual arts, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Salmon: A Red Herring is a continuation of Cooking Sections’ long-term body of work CLIMAVORE, initiated on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, which explores how our diet can address and respond to the climate emergency. Different from carnivore, omnivore, locavore, vegetarian or vegan diets, CLIMAVORE is not only about the origin of #food, but also about the agency that #food has in our response to human-induced climatic events. At the core is an aim to embrace an adaptive and responsive form of eating.

Salmon: A Red Herring at #tate Britain will consist of a site-specific installation which uses sound, light and sculpture to explore the deceptive reality of salmon, both as a colour and a fish. Salmon is usually thought of as salmon pink. Today farmed salmon should be grey, but chemical substances and colourants make them the desired colour as we would expect in nature. As #cookingsections describe it, salmon is ‘the colour of a wild fish which is neither wild, nor fish, nor even salmon’.

Farmed salmon are fed dyes chosen by means of the SalmoFan™, a system of fifteen shades of pink. The artificial colouring reflects consumer demands of recognisably natural colours. Salmon is just one of many colour oddities resulting from the metabolisation of manmade substances in bodies.

In this installation, salmon is used as an example of colour oddities occurring in nature due to industrialisation, resource extraction and the degradation of landscapes. Shifting hues in flesh, scales, feathers, skin, leaves or wings give us clues to understand environmental and metabolic transformations all around, along and inside us. The project will also include interventions in the cafes across all of Tate’s sites. The exhibition is accompanied by a new book, Salmon: A Red Herring, published by Isolarii.

Art Now is a series of free exhibitions at #tate Britain focusing on new and recent work by emerging artists. Since the 1990s, Art Now has recognised talent at its outset and provided a launching platform for artists who have gone on to become established figures on the international art scene. The series has recently included Sophia Al-Maria, France-Lise McGurn, Joanna Piotrowska, Jesse Darling, Lisa Brice, Marguerite Humeau and Simeon Barclay.


ABOUT COOKING SECTIONS

Cooking Sections exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Their work has also been shown at the 58th Venice Art Biennial; 13th Sharjah Biennial and 2020 Sharjah Architecture Triennial; Manifesta12, Palermo; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Serpentine Galleries, #london; Atlas Arts, Skye; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection; HKW Berlin; Grand Union, Birmingham; Akademie der Künste, Berlin and 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale. The duo have been residents in The Politics of #food at Delfina Foundation, #london, and they currently lead a studio unit at the Royal College of Art. They were recently awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award. Upcoming solo shows will open at SALT, Istanbul and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, both in 2020. Upcoming new commissions will be featured at Taipei Art Bienale, Prospect 5, New Orleans and Artspace Aotearoa (both in 2020).


RESEARCH CREDITS
Cooking Sections, Salmon: A Red Herring (London, New York: isolarii, 2020)
Heather Anne Swanson, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Gro B. Ween, Domestication Gone Wild Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations (Toronto: Duke University Press 2018)
Kurlansky, Mark. Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate (Ventura, CA: Patagonia Works, 2020)
E. Lien, Marianne. Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (Berkeley, CA: UC Press 2015).
Chemical seas: the rise and fall of salmon pharming in Scotland
TIME: How Farmers Turn Their Salmon Pink
The Ferret: The Costliest Part of Feeding Farmed Salmon: A Pill That Turns Them Pink

ABOUT SALMOFAN
The SalmoFan™ colour measurement scale by DSM is recognized as the industry standard across the world for measuring salmon fillet colour. DSM have developed a range of colour measurement tools adapted to the needs of the industry from feed producers to retailers.