Mexico Metropolis lighting design studio Davidpompa has collaborated with restaurant Contramar to create an exhibit for the town’s art week that explores the intersection of conventional Mexican weaving and seafood preparation.
Positioned in Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte neighbourhood, Woven Kitchen options the presentation of Mexican seafood dishes by the well-known restaurant Contramar alongside the Cilia lighting assortment by Davidpompa.
The studio sought to carry collectively conventional Mexican craftsmanship and delicacies, knowledgeable by the woven disks discovered within the Cilia assortment and the native seafood dishes and cooking strategies of Contramar, headed by chef Gabriela Cámara.
“We determined to do that collaboration since Contramar is the place the place we spend most of our Saturdays – it is a spot for inspiration, for cultural supplies,” Davidpompa founder David Pompa advised Dezeen. “We’ve got a protracted admiration for the work of Gabriela.”
Hand-woven palma strains the exhibition’s flooring and partitions as a nod to the approach, which dates again to pre-Hispanic instances in Mexico. Suspended from the ceiling, the studio’s Cilia lighting pendants additionally make the most of the fabric and had been crafted by lady artisans from Puebla.
In reference to the economic kitchens and up to date strategies utilised by Contramar, the area was lined with massive metal panels.
Because the centre of the exhibition, massive metal show tables maintain seafood dishes and deconstructed lighting items, “emphasizing the interconnected processes of design and seafood preparation”, in keeping with the workforce.
Dishes served throughout the exhibition embrace heat shrimp broth, a soup that historically marks the start of a seafood meal, and tuna tostadas topped with woven leeks.
An assortment of dried components may also be on show, as they’re used to arrange the shrimp broth and reference the usage of palma in conventional drying strategies in Mexico.
As well as, a restricted version piece by Davidpompa may also be offered, made with blue-dyed palma and aluminium and knowledgeable by Contramar’s “bold-identity”.
“Woven Kitchen transforms these cultural threads right into a sensory expertise of sculptural lighting, experimental delicacies, and an exhibition that paperwork the inventive dialogue behind this collaboration,” mentioned the workforce.
Mexico Metropolis artwork week is oriented across the Zona Maco artwork truthful and consists of different gala’s and activations throughout the town in early February. Previous exhibitions have featured the first furniture design by Mexican architect Michel Rojkind and furniture made of 3,000 stacked pieces of wrinkled manila paper.
Dezeen has collaborated with Studio Davidpompa for the exhibition’s opening occasion and on an architecture-oriented guide to Mexico City for these visiting throughout the artwork week.
The pictures is by Studio Davidpompa
Woven Kitchen will likely be on present from 4-9 February 2025 at Colima 264, Roma Norte, Mexico Metropolis. See Dezeen Events Guide for extra structure and design occasions all over the world.
