Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist, chef and educator. Her artwork often uses food to celebrate and investigate culture and identity, especially around people of color and immigrant communities.
While much of Bhaumik’s work has been about bringing people together, her newest art installation focuses on an idea meant to keep people apart - Trump’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico. At her show, Estamos Contra El Muro, or We Are Against the Wall, up now at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco, Bhaumik has put up a wall made of cinder-block-shaped piñatas.
BHAUMIK: The piñata for me is this perfect form, because it exists to be destroyed. So if I'm going to build something that I don't think should even exist in the first place, you've got to build it out of something not meant to last.
Bhaumik's exhibit Estamos contra el muro, or, We Are Against the Wall, is up until Saturday, October 15th, when Southern Exposure will invite people to come destroy it.
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