Sculptural installation + Ritual object

Materials: Spice packaging, wax fabric, crucifix, turmeric. 

Dimensions: Variable.

A caste-coded altar confronting purity politics, Christian aesthetics, and diaspora grocery aisles.

This didn’t begin as an artwork.
It began in a corner shop—where saffron spice boxes whispered purity, and god sat above the barcode.

We noticed the overlaps:
Colonial packaging styled like Christian altars.
Caste-coded ingredients in gospel fonts.
The holy and the harmful sharing the same shelf.

This is about taste. About caste. About the hypocrisy baked into “authentic.”
Because we don’t just export spices—we export hierarchy, dressed as home.

Premiered at Art Basel 2025, Masala Who Art in Heaven turns spice boxes into a shrine disguised as a spice rack — where caste reveals itself between the aisles.