Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro
El Salón Part 2
New Collaborations, artworks, and food stories.
July 10 - July 29, 2024
JMAC - Jean McDonough Arts Center, Worcester
El Salón Part 2 builds off of the first installation of El Salón: Reimagining Self-Love, Rituals, and Healing in the Kitchen in partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts. With new elements such as performance, texture, and materials Emily Rose transformed the environment of El Salón into a new space that invites people to use other senses such as taste and touch. In collaboration with Adobo-Fish-Sauce and the creative entity El Salón, they aimed to create a memorable performance and experience for the audience to walk away with.
Our collective performance, In the Kitchen We Gather: From Soil to Soul, takes a poetic look at how ritual, intention, and vulnerability can change the way a meal tastes. Using food and storytelling, artists Adobo-Fish-Sauce and Emily Rose reimagined the food rituals we have when we taste, eat, and share in the kitchen. It was a unique spoken word and cooking experience performed at ‘Plaza Sábados’ that we had the privilege of hosting at RecWorcester YouthGROW farm on July 6, 2024.
Shortly after the performance Emily Rose reinstalled El Salón at the Jean McDonough Arts Center in Worcester. Incorporating elements from the In the Kitchen We Gather: From Soil to Soul performance, Emily Rose uses new materials such as bamboo and flowers into the space. In addition, Emily Rose invited members from Adobo-Fish-Sauce and El Salón to bring photos of loved ones to hang with her piece Hairitage and throughout the installation.
Emily Rose also created new art pieces such as I am my mother and Crema de Coco into the El Salón installation. By adding these newer pieces, Emily Rose unveils new and hidden stories from her childhood kitchen. Throughout the installing process the artist was able to reflect more about her identity, hair, cultural haircare and food rituals.
Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro
Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro
Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro
Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro
Photo Credit: Emily Rose Navarro