The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables, displaying a dazzling variety of forms, colours and textures, that only reveal themselves when commercial standards cease to exist. The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste). The Mutato-Project serves to document, preserve and promote these last remainders of agricultural plasticity.
2006 – Present / digital photographs / dimensions variable / continuously growing
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Uli Westphal
Uli Westphal (1980) is a freelancing artist based in Berlin, Germany.
He studied multimedia and environmental art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in
Baltimore, USA and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Enschede, the Netherlands (BFA). He obtained his Masters degree (Art in Context) at the UdK – University of Arts in Berlin, Germany.
His works deal with the way humans perceive, depict and transform the natural world.
The work is multidisciplinary; varying between a wide spectrum of media among which are installation, photography, sculpture, graphics, audio and animation.