subcutaneous meal: A Collaboration with potter carol yoon
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Subcutaneous Meal is an ongoing series of ceramic works by Emiko May and Carol Yoon. Carol makes the porcelain dishware and sculptures, and Emiko creates the hand-painted surface designs, combining imagery of meat and human anatomy with quotes from early 1900’s American food and health magazines. These works engage with the gory and unappetizing reality of human survival, in which one must eat other living beings in order to stay alive. Using this metaphor of cannibalism-as-colonization, we explore the violent dehumanization of labor under capitalism and confront white Western anxieties around racial purity and immigration. Whose lives are we willing to consume in order to keep ourselves and our loved ones alive and well? And how much privilege does it take to keep being the consumer rather than the consumed?
