Parusha Naidoo is a South African artist who uses food and visual art as vehicles for resistance, to unite people and tell uncommonly known stories. Her paintings have been part of three group exhibitions in 2024:

“Chimurenga: Struggles on a plate” as part of Food Indaba 2024 at 16 on Lerotholi, Cape Town (July)

“Sabi Art: There’s Love at Home” curated by African Video Club at Rusha & Co in Los Angeles (August)

“My Homies” a black in every color exhibition curated by Nakeyta Moore (ArtLoud LA) and Josiah David Jones (Valence Projects) in LA (Oct – Nov)

The key themes in her work are home, community, unity, connection, freedom, reclaiming nature space, healing and belonging. She works with memories in some pieces and imagined future memories in others. She uses her art as a way of making people like herself feel seen (coming from South Africa, where the apartheid government systematically excluded people of colour and crushed their worth and confidence). She hopes that her art helps in healing the collective self esteem all around the world where colonisation and capitalism have worked to destroy it.