26.11.2026

10.00–11.30 am

Alejandra Alarcón 

Artist and designer

On food as an artistic medium

Join Alejandra Alarcón in a conversation on “what does it mean to work with food as an artistic medium?” 

Alejandra Alarcón (she/her) is an interdisciplinary Mexican artist and designer based in Helsinki, working at the intersection of food and art. Her interest in (food) sustainability—the socio-political, cultural, and ecological dimensions—is strengthened by a decolonial and ecofeminist approach to knowledge production. Her practice moves between artistic research, performance, installation, independent publishing, and photography. She uses walking, writing, drawing, baking, foraging, and cooking as artistic tools to investigate themes of commensality, belonging, and the seasonality of things. In her work, she also explores relationships between different cultures and social structures through ingredients, culinary rituals, and flavor, as she has encountered them across Mexico and Finland.

Alarcón holds an MA in Contemporary Design (2023) from Aalto University and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design (2019) from Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México. In 2025, she completed the Alternative MA Food and Art online programme by the Gramounce. Alarcón has been awarded residencies at Acme in London, Museum of Impossible Forms in Helsinki, Mediamatic in Amsterdam, and EMMA Kreativzentrum in Pforzheim.

https://alealarcon.com

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