KATHLEEN WALL
White Bread Sandwich
Date: 2025
Medium: Mixed media installation
Condition: Overall very good
Provenance:
– Artist
– Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Wall’s installation addresses the history of Native child removal and cultural assimilation. A retro photograph shows a white couple joyfully doting on a small Native child in ironic costume regalia, seated at their table amid crustless sandwiches and a green Jell-O mold. In the gallery, the table, lamp, and food are physically recreated, blurring memory and reality. With humor and precision, Wall exposes the legacy of adoption and cultural erasure, revealing how domestic ideals once masked the systemic removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities.