ALL YOU CAN EAT

The buffet is now open!

The social chef presents dishes that make us salivate. Our surroundings pressure us to excel: we don’t just want to have the best – we want to be the best. We fill our plates to make sure we don’t miss a thing. We want an extra spoonful of that perfect body, a serving of that big promotion, and a sprinkle or two of a love story.

But does pasta pollo really go with strawberry pie? And what’s hiding under that sprig of parsley? With each extra helping, the plate becomes more monotonous. What seemed like a buffet of endless choices turns out to offer only one option: we’re all standing in the same line. Just when you think you’ve served yourself a unique selection, you look at the next table and see exactly the same mix. In our hunger for more, the taste disappears; a monoculture emerges – a diet that devours itself.

While supplies last

To make things even more complex, we no longer simply buy – we subscribe. Subscriptions promise tempting benefits but ultimately trap us in ongoing obligations. We enroll both body and mind into a regime of endless choices, updates, and possibilities. “Unlimited” deals leave us with a hunger that’s never satisfied.

This limitlessness comes at a cost: exhaustion. Not only of resources, but also of our focus and relationships. The constant availability of stimuli, services, and opportunities blurs the boundary between effort and recovery, leaving us in a state of continuous fatigue. Are we still the eaters, or have we become the meal ourselves?

Room for dessert?

Today’s special offers something that aims to restore flavor to our daily cravings. ALL YOU CAN EAT invites us to rethink our consumption habits and serves a buffet of alternative voices and futures. The exhibition challenges us to reintroduce responsibility into the discourse of an increasingly complex (design) world.

Perhaps true luxury lies not in abundance, but in limitation – in refusing that extra dessert, in consciously choosing simplicity. ALL YOU CAN EAT encourages us to relearn the art of tasting, without the fear of missing out. Because what if enough is precisely what we’ve lost in our pursuit of more?