This Exposition is a brief ironic comment on the ongoing degradation, commodification, and colonisation of food and its many dimensions—recipes, ingredients, context—and a reflection on the territorial definitions that shape identity, in this case of South Asians and the Global South. Once bound together as a people and still united in the brieftopian world of the Author’s Greatest Biryani: an amalgamative dish of political and cultural reproductions, drenched in time, where old and new contest identity.
Through a conversational, autoethnographic lens, the exposition blends historical, colonial, and territorial reflections, using Biryani as both departure point and metaphor for shared identity and dislocation. Visual collages—archival, familial, and sourced—act as probes connecting memory, culture, and belonging. Ultimately, the work offers the Authors Greatest Biryani as a living document of generational knowledge and a utopian gesture, inviting both insiders and outsiders to gather around a dish transcending borders and time.
