Artist
Fred Mungo
Fred Mungo (b. 1994) is an Italian photographer and visual artist, currently based between London and Bologna. Born in Rieti, she first moved to London in 2013 to study. Mungo holds a BA in Fashion Photography from London College of Fashion (University of the Arts of London), and an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths University. Her artistic research sits within the framework of visual sociology.
Table For One
Table for One is a visual exploration of the practice of eating alone, and how it relates to issues of home-making, adaptation, and isolation. The images are produced through a research process that involved both academic investigation and a series of interviews with 20-35 year-olds in Europe. Where Table For One started as a study of eating habits among London-based expat students, it took a new turn during pandemic lockdowns, when many of us found ourselves transforming our living – and eating – routines. “Photographs of food – much like food itself – can invoke deep-seated questions and anxieties about issues such as consumption, aspiration, tradition, gender, race, desire, wealth, poverty, pleasure, revulsion and domesticity” (S. Bright, 2017). With this idea as a starting point, my body of work examines the relationship between food, society, and individualism. The resulting photographs strive to be a stimulus for viewers to reflect on how their eating practices mirror their own living status, dreams, and aspirations.
This year, we selected a group of artists working in the broader regional context whose artistic practices cover a variety of visual approaches we’d like to support through Organ Vida programs. Sanja Bistričić Srića experiments with different techniques of deconstruction and decontextualisation of archived images. The work of Filip Bojović and Pavo Marinović reflects on the visual language and heritage found in the context of the Balkans. Dea Botica revisits family maritime tradition through a speculative documentary depiction of everyday life on a cargo ship. And Fred Mungo captures the mundane experience of serving and eating food as means of understanding social, economical and cultural implications of food consumption.