Description
For over a decade, Bye bye peanuts – comprising Violaine Truchetet and Jean-Baptiste Bonhomme – have been taking cultural venues by storm with culinary performances, workshops and introductory sessions exploring edible art objects. From the Ateliers Vortex, where they began, to the Fondation du Doute, the Sign, the Consortium, the Arab World Institute and the Tator Gallery for their first joint exhibition, their practice constantly explores the act of eating.
Their artistic interventions reflect the hybrid nature of this duo: one is a graduate of the Dijon School of Fine Arts, whilst the other is a former pastry chef who has worked in prestigious restaurants from Paris to London. The conceptual intent is as crucial as the preparation of the dishes. Food has become the medium for installations that stir the conscience, amuse, fascinate or unsettle, but are no longer – or hardly ever – consumed.
For this invitation to the opening of the new Ateliers Vortex spaces, the duo delves deeper into sugar and pastel colours to create a medieval world steeped in marshmallow.