Perishables are the Canadian artist’s medium of choice
Cosimo Cavallaro is countering U.S. president Donald Trump’s demands for a border wall with spoiled cheese. On Monday afternoon, the Montreal-born artist began construction on a colossal cheese wall along the Mexico–U.S. border.
“A cheese wall is something I’ve wanted to do for 20 years. When you come to a barrier or a boundary, you want to expand beyond it,” Cavallaro told HuffPost, adding that Trump’s insistence on a wall “gave me a context for this, the emotional impact.” “A lot of art is just an object in space. You take it, you move it, you move it here, you move it there. But when you cover a room in cheese or in ketchup or in food, you can’t rip that off anymore. That experience is so visceral, so real. And it lives in your mind,” says Cavallaro in a video on the project’s website.
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