Mondongo is the word for a traditional Argentine tripe stew. It is also the name for the internationally renowned Argentine artist collective who will have their first UK exhibition at Maddox Arts this winter.
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Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha and Agustina Picasso, who founded Mondongo in 1999, are not only partial to the stew, but make their work from a ‘cauldron’ of ingredients: “We've used a huge variety of materials in our art, depending on what best reinforces the concept of the work," says Manuel Mendanha, 31. "It's always a process of experimentation until we finish it. We’ll keep experimenting with materials ‘til death comes!" A favoured medium is food, freeze-dried and vacuum-sealed in layers of resin, everything from slabs of meat to Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers. It’s all about the lowest common denominator of consumer living - trinkets, cookies, sausages, jelly babies: the work revels in the tawdry and the grotesque. We are like three witches stirring it up in a cauldron…. attempting to alchemize, to distill and to ooze all the chaos and the all possible “all-ness” in it . . . " — Mondongo, 2008 (from the Mondongo Manifesto)
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