Dorothée Selz's Studio

Born into a family of art lovers, Dorothée Selz married Catalan artist Antoni Miralda in the late 1960s, with whom she worked until 1972. In 1967, for Christmas, the couple sent their friends a greeting card depicting the baby Jesus in marzipan, wrapped in a plastic case; this creation began a long artistic research effort around food and our eating habits. Inscribing her work in the wake of the Eat Art movement, the artist created “ephemeral edible sculptures”: unusual objects, urban landscapes, monumental sculptures, where the visual, the gustatory and the festive combine. In 1970, Dorothée organized a meal in four colors, where each guest could eat a monochrome dish in blue, red, yellow and green. Along with her husband and the Catalan artists Joan Rabascall and Jaume Xifra, she formed the group of "colorist caterers," who perform around food, reactivating social forms of sharing and exchange.