Attracted to the malleability of our identity, Kiriko Mechanicus creates documentaries, stories and delicious dishes to explore how our perspectives vary based on our heritage. Something you find sweet could be bitter to someone else – she explores this phenomenon by writing about the many things we put in our mouths, such as tomatoes, words or body parts. Focusing on culinary history in her work, Kiriko finds that the subject of food, with its everydayness and the many different layers to the culture of eating, allows for the past and the present to be registered simultaneously.