SHARING INGREDIENTS
A multisensory exhibition exploring the powerful connections between food, identity, and memory
“I was profoundly moved. The exhibition felt both incredibly vulnerable and immensely empowering.”
Sharing Ingredients is a touring participatory exhibition that explores the deeply personal, cultural, and emotional relationships we hold with food and our bodies. It brings together handwritten memories, treasured recipes, reflections, and creative writing shared by participants during Eating Stories — a series of intimate workshops led by artist and performer Pepa Duarte.
The workshops offer a space of gentle vulnerability, where participants share food that reminds them of home and take part in guided writing, storytelling, and conversation. In one exercise, they are asked to describe their body to a stranger; in another, to write a recipe for their chosen dish — not just the ingredients, but the memories, rituals, and feelings it carries. It all culminates in a collective meal and a final writing prompt: a letter to one’s own body — what would they say now, if they could speak with care, without judgment?
During the exhibition, visitors are welcomed to sit at a communal kitchen table, read personal reflections, listen to stories, and discover dishes passed down through generations. There is space to reflect, connect, and even contribute their own “recipe of memory” — celebrating the flavours and feelings that shape who we are.
Sharing Ingredients had its first edition in 2025 at the Cubitt Gallery in London. It was supported by Arts Council England and made possible in partnership with Siobhan Davies Studios, Latin American Women’s Rights Service, FEWP, Latinas in Bristol, Theatre Royal Wakefield, and Latin American Women’s Aid.
The exhibition was curated and documented by Louise Carpenedo.
The exhibition highlights eight personal stories. Visitors can listen to participants' voices and experiences by scanning QR codes placed throughout the space.
“ It was fantastic to live vicariously through people’s memories and views of themselves. I felt so close to them all.”
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One dish, one letter, one community at a time.