Holy Grain is a mural and zine installation grounded in the history, the contemporary cultural and active practices that are shaped by the economic and symbolic capital of bread in Jordan.
Holy Grain was exhibited on the wooden graffiti wall behind the Bard College Campus Center.
The mural takes inspiration from the chant used during the bread riots in Jordan in 2016 (خبز، حرّية، عدالة إجتماعية) bread, freedom and social justice.
Based on the Jordanian tradition of leaving stale or dry bread hanging in plastic bags on the side of public garbage bins, Holy Grain hangs a comic strip that discusses the following: The oldest piece of bread found in the northeastern desert of the country. The US agricultural dumping--known as the main contibutor to Jordans wheat import depedancy.
The audience is invited to enjoy the mural and also to come close and grab a comic strip to take them home.
Presented as part of the Undercooked works-in-progress microfestival by MA Human Rights & the Arts.
