Salmon: A Red Herring

Salmon: A Red Herring is a 2020 book by the artist duo Cooking Sections, which consists of Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe. The book and an art installation connected to it were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. It discusses the colour salmon, from its use in industrial salmon farming, as well as other ways in which colour has intersected with agribusiness.

A reading of the text was exhibited by Tate Britain in 2021 as part of its commitment to boycott farmed salmon. In response, Tate galleries no longer serve farmed salmon.

isolarii revive the ‘island books’ that emerged in Venice at the start of the Renaissance, to map the cultural forces—the perennial legends and emerging icons—who represent these values and prove that the human adventure is not over. Islands from which to view the world anew.