Camilio

Video still 05:
Body imprint with colouration of the opposite colour of skin made with food items. 

 

Working with black/brown and white food items makes it even more site specific (locally purchased items), economic and political. For example: Corn flour (white) in Zambia and Malawi are subject of political influence (price and distribution) and corruption (in Malawi there was a food shortage in the 2015/2016 harvast year because the emergency sock (enough for 3 years) was sold to benefit a few). A more personal observation (but far more less worse that the first): in the village we stayed in Zanzibar we were drinking instant coffee while they grow coffee on the mainland of Tanzania but it was not for sale on Zanzibar (for a reasonable price at least)! 
As we all know the same food items are not equally distributed all over the world mainly because of a strange and complex combination of supply and demand, politics, international economy, local economy and/or due to high transport costs (especially when land locked).  With using food items I also like to point out the fact that basically a few big multinational consumer goods companies (KraftHeinz, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, P&G and Nestlé) “decide” what the prices are (on their maximum profit), what we eat, and where. They would probably call it a healthy response to “supply and demand”.

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