“Borrowed Recipes” at Commonwealth and Council

“Borrowed Recipes,” unites six artists’ explorations of inheritance. Anna Sew Hoy, Carmen Argote, David Alekhuogie, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Jesse Chun, and Patricia Fernández offer a range of pieces–from dyed linens to paintings to sculpture to reworked cookbooks– diving into their personal and collective histories to interrogate all things ancestral and familial. The work celebrates generational stories, asking the viewer to find the universal in the particular, the truth in the myth. The exhibition takes its title from a piece by photographer David Alekhuogie, who set his lens in the direction of his parent’s relationship with soul food and their family history.