Journey. Works and Days

This work of photographic documentation made for Atypon magazine centres on the sensation of taste and everyday food-related practices. The artist photographs the procedure of selecting and purchasing the raw ingredients, then prepping for and ritually performing the cooking process before ending with images of the resulting meal. These colour photographs are set into discourse with black-and-white images of women performing traditional agricultural tasks, as well as pictures of barns and neolithic settlements, and steatopygous figurines depicting fertility goddesses of the neolithic period. The work links everyday practices to ancient rites, spotlighting the continuity through deep time of female ritual practice with regard to life and nutrition. During the 2000s, Kanagini would create participatory works that concerned themselves with food, such as Com-panis – Companion presented in 2000 at Desmos Gallery, and Ariston: The Senses Round a Table at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete in Rethymno in 2001, created in partnership with artist Angelos Skourtis and curated by art critic Maria Marangou.