Food Chain Project

When Itamar has been living in Amsterdam for a while, he thinks: I’m gaining weight! That gives him a bit of a scare. He eats a lot of fatty food and drinks plenty of alcohol and soft drinks. That’s why he keeps a food diary for a whole year. Every sugar cube is in it, according to the artist. In this artwork, look for all the snacks Itamar has eaten. How many can you find? And which snack did Itamar not eat that you absolutely love? Imagine how many snacks would be in your own food diary.

At the end of the year, Gilboa was totally shocked. He couldn’t believe how much he had eaten and drunk. How about 111 litres of red wine and 123 litres of Diet Coke? All that, while in the meantime, hundreds of millions of people around the world still suffer from hunger every single day.

Each and every cucumber, every banana and everything you see was eaten by Gilboa and has been reproduced in porcelain. "What I've eaten becomes art. And thanks to its sale value, it can be turned into food again," says Gilboa. His artwork becomes part of the food chain itself!

If you like what Itamar has done, you could try keeping your own diary. You might think that you don't really eat that much. But if you write it all down, you'll see that it's probably more than you thought!