ART the idea that human rights are tied to land and the fact that plants are part of my work is no coincidence. Indigenous cultures wouldn’t exist without access to land as a fundamental right. That’s a theme in my work: food culture, human rights, access to land, taste.
Migration of People, Plants, and Ideas
Sarah K. Khan
Sarah K. Khan (b. Mangla, Pakistan) is a multimedia artist and scholar based between Western Massachusetts and New York. Her practice is informed by extensive global fieldwork and research. Khan spent 30 years researching food and traditional ecological knowledge systems of Asia and the Middle East including nutrition, public health, integrative medicine, plant sciences, and agro-ecology. Khan creates prints, photographs, porcelain, and multimedia content exploring food history, the role of women, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge systems. Follow her @sarahkkhan
