Meal Deal takes this everyday object as a starting point to examine the shrinking space of survival for young creatives in London.About this Event
Date
18-20 Oct, 2025
Opening night 5pm, 18th Oct
19th October : Making Werid Sandwich Together Workshop
Exhibition statement
Meal deal has become more than a quick lunch option. For £3.50—or now £4.25—it promises convenience, affordability, and a fleeting sense of choice. Yet beneath its surface of affordability and efficiency lies a deeper truth about the conditions of life under late capitalism. What seems like a quick solution to hunger reveals the fragile economics of survival, where nourishment is reduced to a bargain and individuality is shaped by standardized choice.
cMeal Deal takes this everyday object as a starting point to examine the shrinking space of survival for young creatives in London. Rising rents and stagnant wages have made the “cheap” lunch a symptom of necessity rather than choice, reflecting a broader neoliberal reality in which individuals must optimize their bodies, time, and desires to fit the demands of the market.
Artists List
Corey Bartle-Sanderson, Cheng Xie, Xinyue Ma, Alex Collinson, Yihao Zhang, Sophia Hogg ,Ruilin Li, Yucheng Kang ,Angela Yip,Hanzi He, Toni Zhao , Xinyi Xu, Lancy Liu, Natalia Janula, Matthew Chung
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Opening night Food Sculpture
presented by Food Fetish ( Lancy Liu)
Meal Deal adopts a corn-based meal set to reveal the modular and homogenized structure of food culture under the guise of urban convenience. As a symbol of industrialized agriculture, corn appears in diverse forms across supermarket shelves, yet it embodies the illusion of choice and the metaphor of control. The work seeks to challenge the viewer’s perception of “freedom of choice” and prompts reflection on the constraints individuals face within a highly regulated food system.
Main: English Breakfast Wrap（Milk, Gluten, Soy）
Snack: Popcorn Brick （Milk, Soy）
Drink: Corn Milk （Milk, Gluten）
Food Performance - Hungry Machine
presented by Yihao Zhang
Hungry Machine is a speculative design work in the form of a small food dispenser that measures the user’s body to create a “customized meal deal.” It satirizes the paradox between personalization and homogenization in consumer society, where individuality masks systemic standardization. By linking bodily measurement with convenience-store logic, the work critiques how efficiency-driven systems turn both food and humans into consumable units.
Textile Work presented by Sophia Hogg
Event Venue
Filet, 103 Murray Grove, London, United Kingdom
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