Party Meals: The Drawn Part
Exhibition by Ursula Schmidt as part of the event Here and Elsewhere: Kitchen Stories, in the libraries of the 18th arrondissement.
The exhibition shows a selection of drawings from a set of artist's sketchbooks: "Carnets de la Goutte d'Or - Château Rouge", made on site, from life, during explorations of the neighbourhood, and of shared meals in the neighbourhood, among others "Les repas de fête", an event initiated by the 4C, the FGO-Barbara and the Ethnographes, a cuisine and solidarity third place, banquets and kitchens of the neighbourhood.
These drawings plunge us into the behind-the-scenes of preparation, when each person brings something, a recipe, ingredients to discover, a gesture, a story, when the place becomes a space of encounter, sharing and solidarity. The quick trace of the sketch of the action sits alongside the slower gesture of other naturalistic drawings of ingredients, food plants specific to the cooking of the neighbourhood's residents, and of its shops.