Lo Alalay is a cook. They use meal-making to think through and beyond who we are and where we are. They create with food as a medium, exploring memory and home-conjuring past, present, or future.
Their practice is tethered to the ancestral wisdom that things should be cooked simply, and intrigued by the elegance and abundance of domestic tools and objects, Filipinx technologies, traditions, and forms of street food culture. Cooking makes statements about ourselves, and they are invested in how our perceptions of taste and culture culminate into cuisine and ultimately “occasion.” Their focus endures within the “occasion,” creating events where eating enlivens the various conjugations of our lives. The opulent yet inviting environments characteristic of their work—often incorporating familiar quotidian shapes or variations in scale—are curious upon encounter and sculptural as much as consumable.
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