Efthimios Moschopoulos: FÁE | an ephemeral dining

“FÁE | an ephemeral dining” draws inspiration from culinary art, agricultural practices, ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging), and the study of table setting (tablescaping), inviting all these into a shared space for dialogue. Flavors, aromas, and sensations fill the space and time, bringing to the table the memories of a child growing up on a Greek island.

The project explores dinner as a social practice, a finite and ever-changing landscape, a form that invests in the unique and transient nature of the human experience.

Memories from my childhood, such as collecting salt on the rocks of the island where I grew up, harvesting olives, making tomato paste, and braiding onions, become a field for exploring various concepts: ‘tópos,’ meeting, belonging, transience, community, and ‘syn-trofos’ (companion).

An invitation to a sensory journey. The body as an archive of memory, experience, and sensations. An in-situ creation of a dinner-sculpture from beginning to end.