Food For Thought
Tapes
Food is one of those things that brings people together. In this installation, the bread trays, which would have once cradled scrumptious bread, are instead carrying passé cassettes. It is through listening to these audiocassettes that people unite. The ‘Tapes’ series speaks to how social transformation has occurred as a result of the widespread distribution of certain cassettes, promoting a whole new paradigm of thought and a different way of life.
In the ‘Tapes’ series, Malluh placed many cassettes in thirty-year-old bread trays that she collected from old bakeries. These trays were used during the same period as when these cassettes were being mass-recorded and distributed. Her work speaks to the wider conversation on how ideas can penetrate society and become norms. It is about the fluidity of discourse that can permeate and transgress local borders, circulating into the global sphere.
