Lunch is a surprisingly recent invention. Like other standards of clock-time by which most of us live, one of its origins is in the factory, and it took solid shape as the industrial revolution unfurled. Sometime around the mid-19th century, the lunch break as we know it — one precious hour during the workday that we could call ours — came into being.
This show probes some of those questions of labor and leisure emerging from the history of lunch, particularly as they relate to art. What kinds of labor do artists perform? What kinds of labor go into making an artwork? And is there a difference?