This one’s a really sought after, hard to come across publication by Miralda. It is a little pop-up-fold-out-cut-out phantasy inside a paper case, capturing one of Miralda’s most ambitious installations: The Food Pavillion. The Food Pavilion , presented at the 2000 World Expo in Hanover, occupied a 1500 m² space and served as a groundbreaking exploration of food as a cultural, symbolic, and sensory experience. Conceived after two years of research and developed by a dedicated working group, the pavilion offered a constellation of projects that collectively defined the concept of Food Culture—its methodologies, thematic structures, and artistic language. The layout followed a thematic program resembling a microcosm, where each intervention contributed to a broader reflection on nourishment, ritual, and global interconnectedness. At the entrance, visitors encountered the pavilion’s centerpiece: the Infinity Table, a 41- meter-long structure made in the shape of an infinity symbol. It functioned as a communal space for exchange and dialogue. Embedded in its surface, illuminated glass cases displayed dry foods—beans, corn, rice—on one side, and objects, products, and documents from the FoodCultura Collection on the other. One loop of the table housed a high-tech kitchen, where over 100 chefs—professional and amateur—offered samples of insects and other exotic dishes, stimulating olfactory and gustatory experiences. The opposite loop presented stark imagery of violence, hunger, pollution, and waste, juxtaposing pleasure with global precariousness.
