The Food of War collective have been researching and responding to contemporary and historic narratives where food encapsulates the complexity of different conflicts, presenting their work in the form of multimedia exhibitions. These conflicts are not  just political, they stretch from the familial to the societal and encompass the collective and the individual, they portray conflicts of belief, of dogma, of personal identity, of contradicting narratives, they are the fabric of human life. 
The exhibition title Peace at the Table? conjures a multitude of images and as a phrase often evokes its antithesis, it speaks also of the chaos beyond the table. It suggests a moment in which the domestic setting acts as an island safeguarded from the turbulent surrounding oceans, the storms and tsunamis beyond. It implies to achieve peace we must be willing to share intimacy, to eat together, to use the same utensils, to breath the same air, to be in the same place at the same time. This is a beautiful idea but in order to eat together, first we must know where the meal is taking place, we must be able to access transport to reach that location, we must understand each other’s languages to share stories, we must be tolerant to the same foods, to share the flavours, we must be equally able-bodied to sit beside each other at a level and we must not be intimated by our neighbours, to feel we can sit beside them.
Colombia’s internal conflict is like an enormous knot, furiously tied together with strings stretching to countries, corporations and individuals all over the world, reaching from deep history to the present. Colombia’s history is probably one of the most complex and misunderstood in the world, glamorised by some, demonised by others, it is a country defined by both blood feuds and blood promises, a nation of passion, love, fear and pain driven by food and conflict.