Mexico Metropolis lighting design studio Davidpompa has collaborated with restaurant Contramar to create an exhibit for the town’s artwork week that explores the intersection of established Mexican weaving and seafood preparation.
Positioned in Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte neighbourhood, Woven Kitchen options the presentation of Mexican seafood dishes by the well-known restaurant Contramar alongside the Cilia lighting assortment by Davidpompa.
The studio sought to deliver collectively established Mexican craftsmanship and delicacies, knowledgeable by the woven disks discovered within the Cilia assortment and the native seafood dishes and cooking strategies of Contramar, headed by chef Gabriela Cámara.
“We determined to do that collaboration since Contramar is the place the place we spend most of our Saturdays – it is a spot for inspiration, for cultural supplies,” Davidpompa founder David Pompa instructed Dezeen. “We have now a protracted admiration for the work of Gabriela.”
Hand-woven palma traces the exhibition’s flooring and partitions as a nod to the approach, which dates again to pre-Hispanic occasions in Mexico. Suspended from the ceiling, the studio’s Cilia lighting pendants additionally make the most of the fabric and had been crafted by lady artisans from Puebla.
In reference to the economic kitchens and modern methods utilised by Contramar, the area was lined with gigantic metal panels.
Because the centre of the exhibition, gigantic metal show tables maintain seafood dishes and deconstructed lighting items, “emphasizing the interconnected processes of design and seafood preparation”, in keeping with the group.
Dishes served in the course of the exhibition embody sultry shrimp broth, a soup that historically marks the start of a seafood meal, and tuna tostadas topped with woven leeks.
An assortment of dried elements will even be on show, as they’re used to arrange the shrimp broth and reference the exploit of palma in established drying strategies in Mexico.
As well as, a narrow version piece by Davidpompa will even be introduced, made with blue-dyed palma and aluminium and knowledgeable by Contramar’s “bold-identity”.
“Woven Kitchen transforms these cultural threads right into a sensory expertise of sculptural lighting, experimental delicacies, and an exhibition that paperwork the inventive dialogue behind this collaboration,” mentioned the group.
Mexico Metropolis artwork week is oriented across the Zona Maco artwork honest and contains different festivals and activations throughout the town in early February. Previous exhibitions have featured the primary furnishings design by Mexican architect Michel Rojkind and furnishings made of three,000 stacked items of wrinkled manila paper.
Dezeen has collaborated with Studio Davidpompa for the exhibition’s opening occasion and on an architecture-oriented information to Mexico Metropolis for these visiting in the course of the artwork week.
