Salt Lick explores energy dense and processed foodstuffs and their association with fatness and class in dominant cultural narratives. Affordable, accessible, and long-lasting foods carry negative connotations as they are assumed to lead to the accumulation of fat on the body. In this way, harmful perceptions of fatness and class are closely enmeshed. The exhibition playfully engages with these stigmatized foodstuffs to complicate classist and anti-fat ideologies. Sprawling hotdog links and large panels plated with processed cheese have a subtle oily sheen and give off a faint savory scent provoking bodily responses in the viewer. By using foods that evoke layered sensations of fear, disgust, desire and pleasure the exhibition develops critical perspectives on fatness and class to combat anti-fatness in dominant discourses.
Salt Lick
Erin Hallyburton
29 January 2026–22 February 2026
29 January 2026–22 February 2026