Hsian Jung Chen

Chen Hsian-Jung (TW) took inspiration from iconic Dutch food such as cheese, smoked sausage, croquette, and stroopwaffles. Seeing these foods as an outsider, they looked abstract to Hsian-Jung who appreciated the color, texture, and shape of these foods. After trying to recreate the essence of each food, he also reinterpreted and distorted them, to challenge the audience’s accustomed way of thinking. The foods were digitally drawn in a 3D modeling program, and then CNC milled out of Styrofoam and plaster, creating casting and press in molds.