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UCL student heads to Helsinki to premiere her film Spiritual Flavours at the 2017 Festival of Political Photography
27 January 2017
UCL PhD student and photographer Laura Cuch will be exhibiting her film
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Flavours (2016) at this year's Festival of Political
Photography 2017, in Helsinki. Laura's exhibition will also provide a taste
of a forthcoming 'multi-faith' photographic cookbook as part of the Spiritual
Flavours project.
Spiritual Flavours interweaves biographical narratives and spiritual accounts from three Londoners: Betty, Aziz and Ossie with the experiences of cooking in their homes. They are members of a Catholic church, a mosque and a liberal synagogue, respectively. The chosen recipes thread the narratives of past, present and future aspirations, spirituality and the everyday.
The commonalities and differences between them are expressed through visual and sonic synchronies and asynchronies. At the end of the film, Betty, Aziz and Ossie meet, cook and eat together. A five-minute introduction of the film is available on the Spiritual Flavours website, where you can also find the recipes from the film.
Connected Communities
The Spiritual Flavours project is part of the AHRC Connected Communities funded Making Suburban Faith research project in which academics from Geography departments at UCL and Royal Holloway investigate material cultures in suburban faith communities.
PhD student Laura expressed her excitement at the opportunity, "I'm thrilled to take part in this year's edition of the Festival of Political Photography in Helsinki, where I will be showing the full length Spiritual Flavours film for the first time. I am also really looking forward to meeting the other artists involved and getting to know their views and work. It's going to be a fantastic week in Helsinki."
Dr Claire Dwyer, Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL and leader of the Arts and Humanities Council research project, Making Suburban Faith which funds Laura's PhD said, "It is a great accolade to be selected for this prestigious photography exhibition. I am sure visitors will be inspired by Laura's film and photographs which beautifully capture the ordinary ways in which food is important for diverse faith communities in one London suburb and explore the intersections of food, faith and place."
For further information please contact Laura Cuch; @lakukstudio
An Introduction to Spiritual Flavours from Laura on Vimeo.
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