Kittiwat Unarrom, 34, is the son of a baker and has a master's degree in fine arts. He combined his two loves when he created the Body Bakery, a bakery in Thailand that sells bread in the shape of human body parts. He's been creating his edible art since 2006. After the recent rush of cannibal stories in the news, he has been resurrected, so to speak, back into the public spotlight.
The Huffington Post reports that his creations can take the shape of heads, hands, feet, or internal organs, among other body parts. The red coloring on the bread is paint, not blood, which Unarrom uses to give each piece a grotesquely realistic appearance.
To Unarrom, the taste is equally important as the asthetic. He has worked to improve both the accuracy and the flavor of his art. "The first series was edible, but they were not delicious. And I don’t want art to just be an object of art; I want the audience to feel involved. I tried hard to make the artworks more and more flavorful," he told CNN in 2010. "I want to experiment and think art shouldn’t only exist in galleries or museums."
He has shown his work in at a clothing shop in Bangkok’s Siam Theatre, and he had a Body and the Dead exhibition in Bangkok’s Whitespace Retro show at Whitespace Gallery two years ago.
As for the family bakery, it bakes ordinary looking bread because he doesn't want his work to be solely for commercial purposes.
Besides being a shocking artistic statement, Unarrom thinks the bread can express his religious beliefs and about how deceiving appearances can be, as well. "I want to speak out about my religious beliefs and dough can say it all. Baking human parts can show the audience how transient bread, and life, is. Also, my bread is still bread no matter how it looks," he said.
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