A Visual Encyclopedia of Indian Foods, Serendipity Arts Festival 2024

This immersive, interactive exhibit engages a ‘Digital Wok’ as a syncreatic approach to examining India’s food landscape as an ingredient-led narrative with tacit cultural knowledge as a vital tool towards holistic food literacy.

It is the first attempt to look at India’s gastro-diversity in a visually rich narrative. The installation connects lateral stories that exist in the Indian food narrative–ingredients, preparation, techniques, and Indian culinary philosophies in a holistic way. The imagery are nuanced portraits of the subjects where ingredients, their foods, botany, seasonality and material culture become screens, dioramas, tableaus, or altars, appropriately drawing upon their compositional qualities as displays of study.