Fruit of Resistance SOLO Exhibition

This body of work serves as a visual guide to food insecurity, environmental terrorism, and the impact of colonial and capitalist practices. Throughout the exhibition, the viewers are invited to reflect on their experiences as consumers of food, a basic human right, and how this right is practiced throughout the western world. From people starved to death in a western society, millions of dollars worth of food ending up in landfill, to school children unable to afford their lunch, you are encouraged to think twice about who has the power to create this inhumane world and who benefits from these policies. Melak's duty as a political artist is to highlight the realities of the increasingly volatile food market, and our government's complicity in destroying indigenous lands and biodiversity for capital gain.