ABOUT

My practice materialises from an exploration into the intersections of identity, memory, and representation. Drawing from my lived experience as an immigrant, a Muslim, South Asian woman, I explore the layered realities of those who share similar background. At the heart of my work is an ongoing engagement with socio-political conditions that shape visibility and erasure, foregrounding voices that are often misrepresented and flattened within dominant narratives. I investigate the politics of representation, particularly how Western and Eurocentric feminist frameworks often fail to account for intersectional identities shaped by race, religion, class, and gender. My work confronts themes of hybridity, systemic power structures and the fraught relationship between agency and oppression. 

Alongside this critical inquiry, I am also drawn to the emotional terrain of memory and the intimacy of sentimentality. I like to work with material culture and storytelling to explore how familial archives can hold both personal and collective histories. The everyday textures and sounds of Pakistan once mundane in their familiarity, have taken on profound emotional resonance in their absence. This has led me to consider the ways we preserve and document memory and how materiality can be used to evoke nostalgia and the act of remembering.

Navigating through these frameworks, my work moves between the public and private, the political and personal. It reflects on acts of resistance both overt and quiet, but especially those rooted in domestic and intergenerational spaces. Through this, I aim to imagine what dignified, nuanced representation could look like for persons navigating complex socio-political landscapes.