Freudian Bites with Paul Hodgson & Radhika Khimji

For the first time at the Freudian Bites table, two artists come into dialogue alongside a chef. This January, Freudian Bites welcomes artists Radhika Khimji and Paul Hodgson, who are also partners, joined by chef Camila Marcías. The evening will unfold as an intimate encounter between artistic practice, process, materiality, and the rituals of making and sharing food.

Paul Hodgson’s practice centres on restaging and reactivating moments from the history of art in order to question how a fixed artwork comes into being. Working with the often invisible residue of artistic production, the gestures, decisions, and processes that are usually lost through historicisation, he makes these elements tangible again. Within a sculptor’s studio constructed inside his permanent workspace, Hodgson reenacts and disrupts historical actions, allowing time to remain open rather than linear and revealing the multiplicity of outcomes contained within any act of making.

Radhika Khimji’s work exists between painting, drawing, collage, embroidery, and sculpture. By inhabiting this in-between state, her practice resists easy categorisation. In evading identification, her work speaks directly to identity itself, using materiality and physical process to deconstruct, erase, and reconfigure imposed definitions. Through playful yet critical engagements with naming and form, she generates new narratives that abstract objects from their loaded histories.

Camila Marcías is a Latina pastry chef and food systems advocate whose work bridges sustainability, biodiversity, and cultural memory. Holding an MSc in Food Policy, and as a Lou Willcock scholar at the Oxford Cultural Collective, her research focuses on the foodways of the Latin American diaspora in the UK, reconnecting people with food origins while foregrounding their cultural and environmental significance.

What to expect:

A welcome drink and bite to set the tone
Bespoke painted tote bags by the artists
An intimate curated evening with a process based menu designed by Camila responding to both of the artists' works
A collective action at the dinner table

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Paul Hodgson (b. 1972) is a British artist based in London. He studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1991-1995) and the Royal College of Art, London (1998-2000). In 2010 he was a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. Hodgson is primarily concerned with restaging creative moments within the history of art, to generate works that deconstruct the processes that lead to the formation of a fixed artwork. In doing so, he works across drawing, painting, photography, digital print, and sculpture. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, ‘How to Generate an Object’, Anteroom, Richard Parr Associates, London, (2024), 'New Work', Marlborough Fine Art, London, (2010), ‘Sovereign Rights’, Marlborough Fine Art, London, (2007), ‘Paul Hodgson’, Feigen Contemporary, New York, (2005). Group exhibitions include, ‘Staged’, Arkas Sanat Alaçatı, Çeşme, İzmir, Turkey, (2025), ‘Myths and Dreams in the Elgiz Collection’, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, (2022), ‘Beauty by Design: Fashioning the Renaissance’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2014), ‘Image Search: Photography from the Collection’, Pérez Art Museum Miami, (2013), 'The Battle of the Somme', Imperial War Museum, London, (2006). Hodgson’s works are part of public and private collections including, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Imperial War Museum, London, Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Radhika Khimji (b.1979 Muscat, Oman) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and holds an MA in Art History from University College London. Recent solo exhibitions include The line in Time, Experimenter, Kolkata, 2025, Cutting into space, Experimenter, Mumbai, 2023, A slight Adjustment at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, 2022, Adorning Shadows at Experimenter, Kolkata, 2021. Recent group exhibitions include: The presence of Absence- works from the Saloni Doshi Collection, Mumbai Gallery Association Mumbai, 2025, The Sculpture park Jaigarth Fort, Jaipur, 2025, Strings attached - Chapter 1, Pipeline , London, 2025, Public art Abu Dhabi Biennial, Abu Dhabi, 2024, Replica of Nostalgia, 18 Glebe Rd, london, 2024, Radhika Khimji, Lee Miller: Portraits in Space, Sapling, London, 2022, Destined Imaginaries, National Pavilion of Oman at the 59^th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2022, Conversations on tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2022, On site, Bikaner house, New Delhi, 2021, Rupture at Experimenter, Kolkata, 2020, and the 6th Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, Marrakech, 2016.

Camila Marcías is a Latina pastry chef and food systems advocate, exploring the intersection of sustainability and artisan baking. Passionate about the relationship between food, climate change, and biodiversity, she co-founded De La Raíz al Plato (From Root to Plate), an online platform dedicated to raising awareness about sustainable food systems and biodiversity loss in Latin America. Camila holds an MSc in Food Policy, specialising in agricultural policies and the decommodification of food value chains. As a recipient of the Lou Willcock scholarship from the Oxford Cultural Collective, she is conducting research on the foodways of the Latin American diaspora in the UK. Her work aims to reconnect people with food origins while highlighting the cultural and environmental significance of food systems. She regularly writes about food sustainability, heritage ingredients, and her journey in making desserts more sustainable on her Substack, Latina Cooking.

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