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Sameer Farooq: Why flatbread belongs in a museum

Sameer Farooq: Why flatbread belongs in a museum

Update: 2024-11-22
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Whether you call it naan, roti, lavash or tortilla, flatbread represents our cultures and traditions, showing us how food can unite us across borders. It's for that reason that the Canadian artist Sameer Farooq believes that flatbread belongs in a museum. His latest project, “Flatbread Library,” is a large-scale sculpture that indexes flatbread from different regions, sourced from bakeries around Toronto. Sameer sits down with Tom Power to tell us how a trip to Pakistan sparked the idea for the project, why bakers are the best sculptors, and how “Flatbread Library” challenges what we typically see in museums.

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Sameer Farooq: Why flatbread belongs in a museum

Sameer Farooq: Why flatbread belongs in a museum