“My Roots” poetically analyses the ways we connect and relate to food. Food, the most basic element of our existence, carves out a common identity and opens dialogues around our ancestry and our heritage - rites of passage, our spirituality, what we become, and what we cease to be. The exhibition consists of an installation, with works by Taina Guedes and a local community, which includes students from Colégio Latino Shiga, in which Guedes' food sculpture is centered as a starting point for an investigation of the elements that constitute Guedes' search for her Japanese roots. The root installation of Guedes is made up of three elements. A root made with lotus roots and paper symbolizes a rebirth, in which a poem written by the artist can be heard. A cloud made from her „Koseki Tohon“ (Japanese family tree) and a tree branch with connecting laces and a „sacred space“ where the artist serves edible art pieces. The compilation of works produced by students of Colégio Latino Shiga during a workshop with the artist intends to study our relationship with „our roots“. The works explore different aspects of the theme, such as Maria C. F. Yoshida, „Where is their home?“, which deals with identity but at the same time the rights of animals and environmental crimes against forests. Rafaela Satiko Komido, explores colors and different painting techniques within the phrase “You are what you eat”. Each of the pieces on display is a unique work, which can also be perceived as a scathing critique of the way we deal with food in our contemporaneity. The interaction between the works and Guedes' work can be seen as an exploration of our mundane existence and its reflections on invisible worlds.