The Origins of Haute Cuisine
The photo exhibition The Fragile Feast tells the story of 30 ingredients used by Ferran Adrià.
The idea of it all cam about when Hannah Collins met Ferran Adrià and his cuisine. The end-dish, its taste, its design, the skill involved and its composition hid a much larger and distant story. A story where the ingredients and their origins are the stars.
Hannah wanted to know more about these stories, so the embarked on a journey across Europe, Latin America and Japan seeking the origins of everything, the starting point of 30 unique ingredients used by El Bulli’s chef.
The Fragile Feast will be open on 5 July at the Suñol Foundation. In the exhibition, we will be able to see Hannah Collins’ photographs of anemones from Cádiz, Japanese kuzu, honey from nomad bees cultivated in Italy, Pyrenean pines and many others.The exhibition, featuring 250 photographs, will follow the thread of time to reach the origin of a series of flagship dishes. Each dish brings with it a certain land, the people who work it and the ancestral techniques and procedures they use.
In short, an exhibition that encourages us not only to look but also to touch, smell and taste each ingredient portrayed.
The Fragile Feast
Suñol Foundation — 2nd floor / Passeig de Gracia, 98
Opening: July 5, 2012, at 19:00
6 July – 1 September 2012
Monday–Saturday, 16:00–20:00. Closed on Sundays and holidays.
Photos: Hannah Collins