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Bismah Kanwal

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Bismah Kanwal kanwalbi123.wixsite.com/bismahkanwal @Bismahs._.art
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2022

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.  

Past Shows

The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

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