Obituary Menus

This participatory installation presents the last meals —whether consciously chosen or not— of a number of well-known figures throughout history. It includes the final meals of individuals such as Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed, the prehistoric ice man Ötzi, Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, fashion designer Gianni Versace, John F. Kennedy, war criminal Slobodan Milošević and assassins Gary Gilmore and Karla Faye Tucker, amongst others.

Obituary Menus
Embossed leather binders and silkscreen on paper
Exhibition view at Rokeby Gallery, London
26 x 20.5 x 1 cm (each)
2011
Photo: Roberto Rubalcava

Obituary Menus - Adolf Eichmann
Embossed leather binders and silkscreen on paper
2009-2010
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved

Obituary Menus
Embossed leather binders and silkscreen on paper
Exhibition view at Rokeby Gallery, London
26 x 20.5 x 1 cm (each)
2011
Photo: Roberto Rubalcava

Obituary Menus - Gianni Versace
Embossed leather binders and silkscreen on paper
2009-2010
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved

Obituary Menus
Exhibition view of ‘De Lekkere Dood': an exhibition on food and death at Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved

Obituary Menus
Exhibition view of ‘De Lekkere Dood': an exhibition on food and death** at Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, Netherlands
**Participants contribute descriptions of their imagined final meal to the display situated behind the work and the answers were compiled to create an archive.
2023
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved