The project Fishdish Ritual, operates as a durational socio-plastic system in which food ceases to be nourishment alone and becomes a material grammar for living architecture. Structured through daily repetitions that explicitly reject repetition itself, the work establishes a ritualised economy of colour, matter, and time. Each dish functions as a unit of practice—an edible module—embedded in the urban metabolism of Madrid’s markets. In this sense, the project extends post-minimal and relational aesthetics into what might be termed alimentary ontology: a condition where consumption, production, and documentation collapse into a single performative act. The fish is not symbolic; it is infrastructural. It anchors the system to perishability, risk, and ethical immediacy. Colour, derived from vegetables and fruits, is neither decorative nor expressive but operational, functioning as a chromatic code that registers seasonality, availability, and bodily adaptation. The refusal of leftovers is crucial: waste is excluded not morally but structurally, positioning the work against extractive abundance and towards calibrated sufficiency. The installation is unstable by design, resisting museological capture and insisting on presence, digestion, and disappearance as its core formal attributes.
