Rasna Bhushan

s imagining

she’s eating a mutton cury, like her family has cooked for generations (goat meat with Garam Masala spice, chilli powder, coconut milk and tomatoes).

Rasna Bhushan (*1959)

Art Critic and Curator

Lives in Hyderabad

Interview from January 4, 2006

Done in Hyderabad

The portraits depicted here are part of the project, «Le Bonheur», which commenced in October 2005. This project sees HOIO engaged in a hunt for «culinary bliss». In the course of short conversations with a diverse group of passers-by and sympathisers, HOIO’s chief executive Samuel Herzog adeptly ferrets out the culinary favourite of each individual. At the end of the informal interview, Herzog gets his interviewee to participate in a little exercise: s/he has to concentrate - with eyes shut, naturally - on the food item that makes her/him most happy. The individual is photographed during the exercise. Then s/he is requested to select the picture that s/he likes best from amongst the photos taken during the penultimate session, and this photograph goes on to be published on the HOIO website.

[Translated from German by Linda Cassens]

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