Bismah Kanwal is a British Pakistani artist based in the West Midlands. Her practice interrogates the ways in which memories are formed and fragmented through different processes and contexts. The transformative potential and emotional, personal and political charge of materials, methods and forms are explored in an attempt to dissect and understand memories in their constant state of flux. Her process is practical and is documented digitally through film. This is for the viewer to attribute time to the experience of watching the videos. The videos show a journey from ‘a whole’ to fragments. The incisions and trauma inflicted to the paper are remnants of her impact. The way we make memories, store them, think about them, helps us understand ourselves better. Looking at the link between water, memories and hydrofeminism. The realisation is that we never see the ‘full picture,’ only fragments of memories. Bismah therefore provides a framework for people to associate with through her videos.
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The root of the word control is the Latin contrarotulus meaning a register, counter, or record of something. CTRL, an abbreviation of control, is synonymous with a digital key which when combined with other keys, carries out an instruction, a shortcut, an action. The 2022 graduating BA Fine Art students are a group who are full of ideas and things to say – the issues they are dealing with are both complex and important. Their […]