Sameer Farooq's library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city's diasporic communities
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"I was really inspired sculpturally by all the different types of bread there. They had different textures and stamps denoting specific bakeries and each bakery had its own pattern or motif imprinted on the bread."
"My dad always says that bread is like the newspaper. When the baker delivers bread door to door, he or she also spreads the news and the gossip of the community."
"He sees flatbreads as repositories of embedded memory both collective and historic, transcending borders and identities like the Sufi traveller of the food world-something that Farooq identified with personally."
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