Céline Pelcé has a background in spatial design and food design. Since 2012 she has used food as a transient building material, poetically imbued with experiences and explorations of different lands. Favouring a collaborative, cross-disciplinary and multicultural approach, Pelcé translates the fruits of her research into performances, edible narratives and shared meals. Her Re-table(au) installation, created in collaboration with Dutch artists De Onkruidenier and Marente Van der Valk, was shown at Lille’s Musée du Tripostal. Through diverse objects and recipes, it elicits comparisons between the edible plants depicted in the Ghent Altarpiece (completed 1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, and our modern globalised food systems.
Pelcé often works as artist-in-residence in Europe and, since 2017, in the United States and Japan, where local territory, history and food culture are the main inspirations for her projects. Through participatory experiences – where food becomes a catalyst for the consumption and digestion of both physical and imaginary things – she addresses our relationship with time, movement, and the urban and rural landscape.
