The Neighbour's Plate
Amna Elnour, Dana Qaddah and Derya Akay
at Unit 17, Vancouver
November 28, 2020 – January 17, 2021

   
view of The Neighbour's Plate oh how it is visible form the street. A bright room with hanging fruits and pans by the front windows, and a redbull fridge is visible in the foreground. view of the gallery from outside with the lights off, only LED lights showing
   
the table in the middle of the room, there is a column located off the centre of the table, and the table is fit around tis column. the radius is about 60 inches, and the table is made up of 4 quarters sections. one of the four sections rests slighlt lower then the other and the surface is evened out with glass. between the glass and the table are photographs, shopping bags, cards, and other ephemera on display tahini molasses in a small bowl with spider web pattern painted with the contrast of the colours between the tahini and the molasses
   
duck basturma carbonara by Amna, rosemary cookies, laid out on the tables pink section. textile book work by Derya, all the linen samples from my parents old linen company
   
detail of foods on table, candied chestnut, pickled beets, hops tea, shelfs of hazelnuts, peels of tangerines, pistachio shells candied pumpkin dish with clotted cream and pumplin seeds centrally plated on a speckled and casually glazed handmade ceramic tableware
   
the central table work with cushions and rugs around it for gallery comers to sit around while they are served the foods of the artists view of the table in the center of the room, the back of the table holds an industrial meat slicer and hand painted cardboard box
   
   
portion of the wall length shelf holding cutting board, pomegrante, photographs, coffee grounds, cookies, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, grape molasses, rosemary cookies, tahini and a brush portion of the wall length shelf work holding arak, photographs, small clay pot, sundlower seeds, a pop can, cube sugar
   
view of the back wall of the gallery, including the whole in the wall creating a restaurnat pass, the gallery back door, and the whole Quran written on a printed poster view of wood framed hole in the wall, allowing the food created in the back to be served to the gallery side. the wooden frame of the hole is adorned with photographs of foods taken by the artists
   
stack of newsprint posters by the artists sitting on tray, sitting on redbull stand