Note: This is part of our SATIRE edition and a creative piece collaborating our campus gallery and Sodexo.

Seton Gallery recently announced its upcoming exhibition, a student’s art collection titled “Tribute to Sodexo: Said No One Ever,” which is projected to open for public viewing on Wednesday, April 1.

The exhibit features multimedia works that critique the university’s choice of food service company. For instance, one acrylic painting features a sad clown eating a chicken wrap, a rotting sandwich with live flies buzzing around it and a signed doctor’s note prescribing the recipient with “Sodexo intolerance.”

Sources from the gallery say that the artworks arrived in a large crate, with a letter attached including the name of the exhibition and a call to “Let them know.” The letter did not mention the name of the creator.

“We smelled something really bad coming from outside the gallery,” said one faculty worker. “We thought it was a misplaced dumpster at first.”

After reading the letter and realizing that the source of the powerful stench was meant to be art, staff got to work displaying the pieces in the gallery. The task proved to be difficult, as some staff members fainted from the smell of the rotten pieces. One even contracted food poisoning after mistaking one of the pieces for their lunch.

“I don’t even think that one was expired,” another staff member said. “It was just really gross.”

While the art department is struggling to find the artist, conversation was sparked among the student body. Some even felt inspired by the works. “Honestly, this made me realize that I’m not hating to my full potential,” said one student, who asked not to be named in fear that their next Sodexo-supplied meal would be their last.

Every Sodexo representative the Charger Bulletin attempted to reach declined to comment on account of feeling “personally disrespected by this delinquent’s hate game.”