This eerie monochromatic scene is the work of London-based artist duo Cooking Sections, who use food as “a critical tool for understanding the transformations taking place in our physical environment, as well as grasping the systems, processes and histories that propel them,” writes Madeleine Morley in a feature for Elephant Issue 45. This is their 2021 installation at Tate Britain, titled Salmon: A Red Herring, which posited that farmed, artificially coloured salmon is in fact “no longer salmon… but a genetically modified, colour-corrected image of itself,” Morley explains. “Sensing such transformations, however subtle, is essential if we are to unlearn destructive habits and better adapt to a fragile, changing world.” Purchase Issue 45 to read on.
