The installation contains parts of the interdisciplinary project Asia Bistro - Made in Rice.

The Vietnamese artist Hièn Hoàng uses rice - a typical ingredient of her country of origin and also a symbol for what is “Asian” in the Western part of the world - to address the underlying discrimination of the “good immigrant”. Here food becomes a metaphor for stereotypes about Asian cultures - a limitation, a mask.

The piece highlights the issue of immigration policy in Germany and Europe, and how it affects a person and often causes trauma - for a person as well as for a community.

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