Clio Squadroni

Walking through the city, everywhere we look, we are surrounded by pictures representing food. We see them in front of restaurants and bars, passing by shops and supermarkets, and we can eat what we want when we want. All these wonderful food pictures we see around completely disguise the reality behind the food they are displaying: the industrialized food production system is trash.
Those same pictures are also part of the construct that makes us perceive food as a commodity, pushing us to enter supermarkets, and, surrounded by tons of products in attractive packages, grab things that we probably don't need, or worse, that we won't eat.
Throughout the whole industrial food production system, from farms to fridges, food is trashed. One-third of all the food produced in the world - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes - is lost or wasted every year.
Dumpster diving is an activity that consists in collecting, from a trash bin, what the big markets and shops discard and take for “unsaleable”: most of the time are things in good condition and edible, but no longer perfect and therefore reject by the market. The activity is performed not only by people out of necessity, but also by organized groups and, in general,§ by people who are aware of the big waste that is behind our way of conceiving food today. The food you see in these pictures was not produced with a special recipe but with the food found in the trash. Starting from what you have instead of what you need is a good way of thinking.
The focus of this project is to encourage the observer to become fully aware of his food consumption and to shows what can be done with what the system calls “junk”.

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