Meat of the sea

Alkouh’s project acknowledges that if people stop eating meat, a whole culture surrounding meat production and preparation would be lost.

Alkouh uses dulse seaweed, which looks like meat and tastes like bacon when fried, to replicate the aesthetics and language used by the pig industry. For the project, first seen at Milan Design Week, she created butcher shop-style sculptures and fake carcasses made of dulse. These were presented alongside a written narrative about the production and farming of the seaweed, using language typically associated with butchery and the meat industry.

‘The objective is to point out the collective social values and innate behaviour tied to the skills around meat production that would be jeopardised in a post-meat world, to ensure their adaptive proliferation,’ explains Alkouh.