Supply Chain Indigestion

An exhibition by Tian Guoxin and Hannah O’Flynn with Kari Leigh Rosenfeld.

Supply Chain Indigestion looks into the intersections between eating practices, food production, and power relations. The exhibition brings together the political histories of the kiwi fruit and the baguette, and investigates how these foods encapsulate the complex networks of globalised capitalism. The works by Tian Guoxin and Hannah O’Flynn with Kari Leigh Rosenfeld look at our constant entanglement in systems of exploitation, observing how the everyday objects that surround us have been made available through transoceanic commercial operations, long histories of colonisation and continuing environmental exploitation. They question the power dynamics behind this fruit having been taken from its habitual environment, globally circulated, and then returned to be sold back under a new identity. Or, how the charged symbolism given to bread has played an overlooked role in the destruction of cultures and environments.

The visitors enter the exhibition as if being swallowed into the digestive system that slowly breaks down the history of these food products. In the stomach, the relations held within these foodstuff, often hard to grasp due to the immense geographical distances that they travel, become more palpable. Half way below ground, somewhere between root and stem, the layers of meaning imprinted in the food we ingest begin to become more discernible, mapping out the supply chains of exploitation.

Thanks to: Pablo Giménez Arteaga, Mirco Carloni, Joannie Baumgärtner, Lucas Maximilian Frohn, Yve Oh, Jolyon Jones, Rayanne Mcirdi, Evan Maupin, Andy Forbes, Maria Ibáñez Trullén, Jingold S.P.A. and LPG Biomarkt GmbH.

Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Bezirksamt Friederichshein-Kreuzberg.

Poster design by Socis Club.

20th May to 16th of June 2023

Opening: 6PM until late, 19th of May 2023

To come visit the exhibition, please contact us for an appointment:

info@withtherubbles.org / @withtherubblesofoldpalaces

with the rubbles of old palaces is currently not wheelchair accessible,

please contact our email address for online access to the exhibition’s films.