Salad Days

‘Salad Days’ refers to the days of innocence and pleasure of our youth. It may also describe being at the peak of one’s abilities. The term comes from Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra, Act I Scene 5, where Cleopatra says, “My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then!”

While the leaves come falling down, Design Museum Gent tossed you a fresh salad combining six slightly eerie graduation projects by students from KASK and LUCA School of Arts Ghent. The selected works range from an exploration of dust as a new raw material to a visual essay that examines Susan Sontag’s definition of ‘camp’ as being “the love for the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”.