In the art exhibition Cooking Time, artist Sarah Kazmi and curator Noor Bhangu take a closer look at Pakistani labor immigration to Norway and the meeting between migrants and Norwegian society.
In the cultural meetings that occurred, food played an important role. When immigration from Pakistan to Norway picked up sharply in the 1960s and 1970s, it was particularly young men who came to the country to work and earn money. Many of them started out in the service industry and the restaurant industry, and brought new food traditions to Oslo – traditions that have left a big mark on the city. With food and food traditions as a review theme, the public gets to experience various artistic expressions such as photography, installations, text and performance.
In the exhibition, the artist draws on collections and archival material from, among others, the Oslo Museum, Norwegian Folk Museum and Oslo City Archives, and questions the representation of history – who gets to write history, and who is represented?
