Quiet Feast

QUIET FEAST (2013) 9min

Quiet Feast is a lens-based project by photographer Diana Luganski and media artist Mikko Keskiivari. This work consists of moving image video and a series of still images.

It shows a glimpse of a deceptive yet at the same time dangerously romantic mental space, where relation to food and consumption have turned into a conundrum.

The project explores the idea of a still life trough digital tools and studies the grey areas in between painting, photography and video; playing with the aesthetics of commercial image constructed in domestic setting.

By referring to the vanitas tradition it shows the decay and grotesque behind the superficial glamour of the food. 

With twelve video loops Quiet Feast attempts to translate a still life into a moving image, by bringing in-animated things to life. This movement is then again suspended in a series of still photography.

The work searches for the uncanny in an everyday situation, and transfers something familiar into a dialogue between magical and morbid; asking when does a need based habit change into a ritual or obsession?