Carlos Alfonso

Interested in framing counter-knowledge in the form of anecdotes, narratives and oralities, Carlos Alfonso focuses on rethinking associations that can be drawn from an anthropological and speculative approach. His body of work as described by him “engages with cooking, image-making, sculpture, performance and editorial practices as ways of spreading information and echoing collective constructs.” Notions of co-creation, collectivity and hospitality are certainly leitmotivs of Alfonso’s processes. In 2020, the artist published the book “Mundos Mutuos, la cocina como taller” with anthropologist Cristina Consuegra, an in-depth look at the act of cooking and eating with others, also conceived as an open field for the exchange of knowledge surrounding culinary processes, agriculture, cultural history and the ecology of food. Alfonso’s Chinese ink drawings featured in the In Situ section brought together under the title Mundos Mutuos, are part of a broader series of drawings published in the above mentioned book of research based recipes.

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