LAS Art Foundation

A person with tied-up hair and a sleeveless black top sits on a pink sofa, their head resting on their hand. Pink curtains are in the background, creating a soft ambiance. The person has a calm and relaxed expression.

Chelsea Turowsky is a US-American artist working across food and text.

Turowsky’s practice treats memory as a map, with inheritance, collective history and cultural evidence as compass. A type of translator, they compare the plate to the page, approaching each menu as an extension of their written poetry. Flavor becomes language. Based in Berlin, Turowsky has worked professionally as a chef and gastronomic consultant since 2015. Through residencies across restaurants, geographies and unconventional spaces, Turowsky focuses on Omakase-style dining both within and beyond the traditional restaurant context. Over the last decade, Turowsky has developed an ongoing relationship with the menu as an artistic medium, often incorporating poetry directly into its structure while investigating the symbolism of ingredients as they relate to trauma, cognition and healing. For Turowsky, food functions as both material and methodology, with the choreography of gathering and event-making forming an extension of the practice itself.