Was I really hungry, or was it something else? (2026) forms part of Una práctica de compartir [A Sharing Practice], a research project conducted as part of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation’s "Arte por venir" [Art to Come] programme. The work takes the form of a card oracle created using ingredients from Africa, Spain, the Caribbean and India. Each ingredient encapsulates a story and serves as a tool for reflecting on the past and the present: sugar cane, cocoa and palm fruit all evoke historical processes of colonisation and exploitation whose social and ecological consequences are still felt today.

For the Old Fish Market in Avilés, Essonti presents eight ingredients in large cyanotypes on fabric. Each one incorporates a year, a place, a flavour and a natural element, linking food, memory and extractivism. The installation is not intended to be a finished work: the deck continues to grow collectively through performances and meetings with communities of African descent. Food thus appears as a space for hospitality and resistance, but also as a way to ask ourselves what stories underpin what we consume.