Hybrid Buffet, 20 June 2021
Discarded bread, plexiglass, metal, H 30 x L 72 x W 36 in. (H 76 x L 183 x W 91 cm.)
Hybrid Buffet is a table mosaic made of discarded bread fully coated with matt varnish that utilizes ephemeral materials to manifest themes of subsistence, labor, assimilation, and the ongoing consequences of post-colonial socio-economic structures in a disruptive yet contemplative form.
The mosaic motif is inspired by the front of the Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers, which was partly destroyed under the French occupation then partially rebuilt and converted into a church to be reconverted into a mosque after the country gained its independence.
This piece was presented in September 2021 at SPRING/BREAK Art Show for Hearsay: Heresy and on 20 June 2021 at the Flux Factory for Din Din's Missing Luncheon.
The mosaic motif is inspired by the front of the Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers, which was partly destroyed under the French occupation then partially rebuilt and converted into a church to be reconverted into a mosque after the country gained its independence.
This piece was presented in September 2021 at SPRING/BREAK Art Show for Hearsay: Heresy and on 20 June 2021 at the Flux Factory for Din Din's Missing Luncheon.