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Antoni Miralda, the art of eating the world in Inclassificables
The creator turns Poblenou into a ritual setting where everyday culture, food and art become a political gesture and collective celebration.
Episode 10 of the third season of Inclassificables invites us to enter Antoni Miralda's house-workshop, in Poblenou, Barcelona, in a conversation that confirms why the artist is, literally, unclassifiable. An international reference and creator of the concept of everyday culture as a tool for political reflection, Miralda has developed a career where art, ritual and food become critical language and collective celebration.
Alongside food critic Salvador Garcia-Arbós, the episode explores the multiple connections between food and art : eating as a symbol, as memory, as a social act and also as a political gesture. A fluid and revealing conversation that crosses disciplines and invites us to rethink what is apparently ordinary.
Hosted by David Escamilla and Ricard Planas —creators, directors and voices of the podcast—, Inclassificables is the art podcast of Catalunya Ràdio – 3Cat that travels throughout Catalonia in search of art spaces, creative studios, museums and foundations. Its objective: to generate close and informative dialogues with figures of great media relevance, in a relaxed tone that brings contemporary creation closer to the general public.
On this occasion, the stop in Poblenou is not just geographical: it is an immersion in a universe where everyday life becomes artistic matter and where eating is also a way of thinking about the world.
In Poblenou, Miralda lives, creates and thinks. The neighborhood becomes a creative territory, a natural extension of his artistic universe, where everyday life is raw material and food, language. After a long journey that took him from Paris to New York, the artist returns to Barcelona with a distilled view of the world, but rooted in the most elementary gesture: sharing, cooking, celebrating.
His work has placed food at the center of artistic discourse. Fundamental projects such as Food Cultura opened up a new way of understanding the relationship between art, society and ritual, turning eating into a symbolic, collective and political action. More recently, Sant Stomak continues this exploration, sacralizing the stomach as a meeting place between body, memory and culture.
For Miralda, life is a ritual and a living of life: a succession of shared acts that build community and meaning. Food ceases to be just nutrition to become celebration, criticism and story. In her work, art is not exhibited, it is lived; it is not observed, it is participated in. And it is from this creative Poblenou —between kitchens, tables and ideas— that Miralda continues to think about the world through which we eat and how we share it.
