The Invisible Dog Art Center, MOFAD and Books Are Magic are thrilled to co-present an apple tasting by artist William Mullan, as part of Nafas, an exhibition and a festival celebrating the union between food and art.
It is estimated that there are over 7,000 identified apple cultivars, but as a culture and as consumers, we only taste and interact with a few of them. Modern capitalism has flattened this wild fruit into a global commodity. But beyond the grocery store, apples are a truly wild and strange fruit that never grows true from seed and manifests itself in all sorts of colors, shapes, sizes, and flavors. Brooklyn-based artist William Mullan invites you for a presentation on the apple’s history, from it's Miocene-beginning to its historical intersections with migration, capitalism, and culture. The presentation will feature a tasting of dozens of rare and odd apples: the red-flesh Neidzwetskyana, like pink-flesh Hidden Rose, the toad-like Knobbed Russet, the star shaped Api Etoile, the legendary Ashmead's Kernel, the magical Black Oxford, and more.
William Mullan is an artist based in Brooklyn. By day, he works for a chocolate maker, and by night, he photographs, harvests, and ferments fruit (and sometimes flowers). In 2021, his collaboration with designer Andrea Trabucco Campos, "Odd Apples", was published as a monograph by Hatje Cantz.
You can purchase Odd Apples during the event thanks to Books Are Magic
@pomme_queen.
Admission
RSVP
Location
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen St.