Homesick Kitchen (2025)

For the second edition of Underdeveloped, the artist Lon Luna takes over the Homesick Kitchen: a growing research-based installation shaped through cooking and conversation. 

In collaboration with Stichting Mano, newcomers and the intercultural residents of Rotterdam, Lon Luna explores herbal knowledge. How do different communities use herbs? What meanings do they carry? Where do traditions converge or diverge? Through storytelling and exchange, the installation evolves into an organic archive of herbal wisdom. 

With herbs at its core, the growing installation Homesick Kitchen is nourished by dialogue and reflection, in which traditions are (re)discovered, new connections emerge and (forgotten) herbal knowledge is returned to the hands of the people. How can we rediscover and share our knowledge of local plants?