THE MENU | Group show 03.06.2025 at LAS Gallery, London

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​Sounding Crops (photograph) + Not All Sound is Heard (poem) on show.

What I brought to the table: a photograph of a field of Purple Artichokes in Sant’Erasmo, a small island in the Venetian Lagoon. But the image is only an entry point — a portal into a layered terrain where food is not just an ingredient, but a living palimpsest.

This visual gesture opens up a web of more-than-human entanglements: from the hands that cultivate the land, to the rhythms of the tides, to the infrastructural violence of large-scale interventions that silently reshape both ecologies and identities. The artichoke becomes a quiet witness to these frictions: between tradition and modernity, the edible and the inedible, the visible and the erased.

The poem extends this gesture, asking what it means to sound, and what sounding could become, when attuned to more-than-sound.

Rather than staging an edible situation, my contribution imagines a speculative digestion: a menu of stories, voices, and sensory thresholds that reclaim the field as a communal table: messy, marginal, and politically fertile.

This work is part of my ongoing research at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, where I focus on the Purple Artichoke of Sant’Erasmo as a lens through which to examine the politics of authenticity, agroecological resilience, and infrastructural imposition in the Venetian Lagoon.

Curated by Emilia González Salgado and Giuseppe Burdo.

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