When a Designer Becomes Friends with an Artist and They Create a Cult Supper Club

Fucked Up Individuals: The Dinner Series

This isn’t a pop-up. It’s not a restaurant. It’s not therapy.
It’s a dinner party for the emotionally fluent and existentially undone, hosted in the black kitchen of designer Illi Goren and guided by artist Joseph Awuah-Darko who asks the kind of questions that strip you bare (and somehow make you laugh about it).

Eight strangers. One black table.
No small talk. No social climbing. No branding opportunities.
Just food, feeling, and consensual emotional chaos.

Illi cooks like she designs—precise, obsessive, architectural.
Joseph doesn’t just host—he interrogates your soul, gently.
The result?
Grief with garnish. Intimacy with fangs.

The night unfolds like ritual:
Aperitifs. Appetizers. Breakdowns. Breakthroughs. Dessert.

You eat. You speak. You unravel.
The light is soft. The emotions aren’t.
There’s wine. There are rules.
And there’s no way to stay silent.

What to Expect

cooked food and even raw conversation. Guests dressed like trauma in couture. Silence that tastes like truth. Laughter that ambushes you. No phones, no performance