HUNGER, A MAN-MADE OBJECT

2014

Exhibitions:

‘Hunger, a man-made object’, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, 2014 

Festival of Political Photography, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2017

‘Hunger, a man-made object’, Exhibition at MAZ Museo de Arte Zapopan, Mexico, 2018

‘Accumulation by Dispossession’, Delfina Foundation, 2019

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Today’s wealth is unparalleled, we have more food and money that ever before and our capacity to feed the world’s population has exceeded any prediction, growing food enough to nourish the entire planet and a half. Ignoring this fact, the mainstream discourse keeps overwhelming the citizens with ideas of overpopulation and lack of resources pushing to increase even more the agricultural output. 

This exhibition moves away from the mythology of hunger that has stuffed the social consciousness with images of misery, poverty and scarcity, in order to better understand those other reasons why nearly 1 billion people are deprived of food. 

During her stay at Delfina Foundation as part of the residency program “The Politics of Food” Molinos studied David Harvey’s concept Accumulation by dispossession which elaborates on how the centralization of wealth and power in the hands of a few is caused by dispossessing and expropriating the public of their wealth and/or land. 

By connecting the dots that join the places where food accumulates and those where it gets extracted from, we found a number of “economic objects”, some are hand-made, others machine assembled, computerized or mechanized, but they all reveal the artisan character of the financial system that has turned hunger into a true manufactured product.