Kwok wears a dress by HERMÈS.

IMOGEN KWOK

  • Words Korsha Wilson
  • Photos Pelle Crépin
  • Styling Kingsley Tao

The artist takes food styling quite literally, creating accessories out of fruits and vegetables.

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  • Words Korsha Wilson
  • Photos Pelle Crépin
  • Styling Kingsley Tao
  • Hair Natalie Shafii
  • Makeup Linda Andersson
  • Prop Styling Imogen Kwok

At a party for Italian loungewear brand Comme Si, chef, food stylist and artist Imogen Kwok debuted a new work called An Egg But Not An Egg. Guests were invited to pick up a hot, pale-blue egg and crack it open, revealing a steaming and glistening mound of white rice inside. Onlookers giggled with joy as the illusion was revealed, reveling in the playful inversion of sensory expectations.

It’s one of many works where Kwok uses food as a medium, elevating the act of eating to an artistic experience. At Paris Fashion Week in 2023, for example, Kwok showed a piece at an event for fashion brand Matteau that presented food as interactive minimalist sculptures: a large dish of glossy, marble-sized melon balls next to overlapping wafer-thin layers of transparent radish and salmon rilette. In...

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