Edible Babel Tower: The Feast of Signals
Pop-up exhibition with Green Grammar
Discover this unique pop-up exhibition—a merging of food sculpture, art installations, and video works to create an immersive, multi-sensory experience.
The title “Babel” originates from Bāḇel (בָּבֶל), meaning “confusion” or “gateway.” According to legend, humanity once sought to build a tower reaching the heavens, only to be scattered across the earth when their languages fell into disarray. The collapse of the Tower of Babel reveals an enduring human dilemma:
- We long to understand one another, yet are defined by difference.
- We seek unity, yet exist through diversity.
Centuries later, artist Cildo Meireles echoed this myth with his Tower of Sound (Babel, 2001, Tate Modern), constructed from hundreds of obsolete radios. Countless voices overlap, interfere, and dissolve into noise.
Rebuilding Babel, takes this work as its point of departure. In an age of information overload and fragmented expression, language is no longer the measure of communication. When words fail, we speak through the senses.
Understanding becomes the accumulation of misunderstandings; meaning grows through rupture.
When language falls silent, how will you choose to speak with the world?