‘I like to watch people eat’: photographer on the over-the-top food imagery in her debut solo show
- Photographer Jennifer Tang Wing-lam’s debut exhibition at Soho House’s public gallery in Hong Kong is an expression of the joys of eating without guilt
- Her images feature ‘messy’ foods like jelly and pomegranate, styled by food designer Alison Tan – and plus-size model Lezlie Chan as a cyberpunk 1950s housewife
“We had a lot of crazy ideas, but we were worried that they wouldn’t be edible,” says Jennifer Tang Wing-lam, a 26-year-old professional fashion and product photographer.
She is referring to a surreal arrangement of shiny “desserts” on cake stands, such as instant noodles, cocktail sausages and rounds of pineapple suspended in clear jelly, which feature alongside a more conventional ruby-coloured pudding in a coupe glass.
It is one of the many shots that feature in Tang’s debut photography exhibition, “Feed Me”, which opens at the public gallery space on the ground floor of private members’ club Soho House Hong Kong, on Hong Kong Island, this month.
On November 4, guests attending the launch party will be able to see – and perhaps taste – for themselves the rather odd jelly sculptures that were created for one of the sets by food designer Alison Tan, who created all the foods seen in the series of images.