MANGA!*

What can a fruit hold? A season, a geography, a body, a kitchen, a childhood, a ritual. مانجا (Like Butter) took the Egyptian mango as both subject and material, gathering around its many forms, textures, memories, and afterlives. For one evening, the kitchen studios opened as a site of slow gathering and exchange: a table became a temporary commons, and a menu became a kind of edible score, moving the mango from ripe to steeped, sweet to sour, familiar to strange.

Through a dinner of reinterpretations, we ate our way through the fruit while offering the Egyptian mango as an entry point into our own archives. We turned toward the personal and ephemeral: the fruits we remembered, the rituals that surrounded them, the people who first offered them to us, the places they returned us to. Through writing, drawing, fragments, associations, or simply sitting with a memory, we made our own small records of the fruits we cherished.

As such, guests were also invited to bring a fruit offering to share, contributing to our final movement together.