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Pyaar Mohabbat Ka Sharbat: Recipe
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2020
Artist: Sara David (British)
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Duration: 344 seconds
Medium: Video
Object number: MISC.2020.108.CC
DescriptionFor my Degree Show, I planned to exhibit an installation comprising of two video works, one of which would be a cooking demonstration. The recipe I am making in this is ‘pyaar mohabbat ka sharbat', a popular watermelon and rose based drink in Delhi, where I was born and raised.
Translating as ‘A drink of love and affection’.
There are different elements playing into this moving image work. My backdrop is a direct reference to and image of the kitchen made famous by Bon Appétit: Test Kitchen on YouTube. I wanted to place myself into this lens of a popular Westernised cooking culture, through the use of the medium of video. Where Eurocentrism plays a large role, whether that be from the host itself to the set and what is being made and also the language used to communicate this. Through this I bring the work into a contemporary, appropriated and comedic landscape. The font references the bold and blocked style text used within 60s Bollywood posters. I wanted this cooking demonstration to feel cinematic, misplaced yet comprehensible. There’s something about this that equally feels like a music video because of the sound used, which is sung/ performed by my own dad, playing as the soundtrack to the recipe. It’s both complimentary yet distracting. The video sets the tone for my overall series; something satirical and at the same time personal and tragic.
Translating as ‘A drink of love and affection’.
There are different elements playing into this moving image work. My backdrop is a direct reference to and image of the kitchen made famous by Bon Appétit: Test Kitchen on YouTube. I wanted to place myself into this lens of a popular Westernised cooking culture, through the use of the medium of video. Where Eurocentrism plays a large role, whether that be from the host itself to the set and what is being made and also the language used to communicate this. Through this I bring the work into a contemporary, appropriated and comedic landscape. The font references the bold and blocked style text used within 60s Bollywood posters. I wanted this cooking demonstration to feel cinematic, misplaced yet comprehensible. There’s something about this that equally feels like a music video because of the sound used, which is sung/ performed by my own dad, playing as the soundtrack to the recipe. It’s both complimentary yet distracting. The video sets the tone for my overall series; something satirical and at the same time personal and tragic.
