The Fruit of LACMA

Fallen Fruit Presents the EATLACMA, curated exhibition 2010

Drawing on the museum’s permanent collection, Fallen Fruit Presents the EATLACMA, assembles work in several media (painting, photography, and decorative arts) to examine the haunting persistence of fruit in art. This exhibition examines the symbolic and sociological aspects of fruit in art, from religious symbolism to embedded social messages. It includes a LACMA-commissioned piece from Fallen Fruit, as well as custom-designed wall paper. Also included is Show Us How You Eat, a new participatory piece in which the public is invited to upload video of themselves eating, and Fruit Stories, an archive of personal stories gathered on the collaborative’s travels will be a sound installation inside the gallery. The website for EATLACMA will be participatory and integrated into the overall project, collecting videos, tweets, artist’s blogs and images.