Cooking Sections (UK)

Cooking Sections examines the systems that organize the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to observe landscapes in transformation. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates. In 2016 they opened The Empire Remains Shop.

Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Grand Union, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Storefront for Art and Architecture; 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12 among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California; and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They lead a studio unit at the Royal College of Art, London, and were guest professors at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the 2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for “Being Shellfish”.