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Hazera Begum

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Hazera Begum Hazera.Begum3@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
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A series a cubes with photographs printed on them are stacked against a white background. The cubes show a young woman eyes and mouth, alongside architectures from the Middle East. The female characters represented on the cube appear to wear a head scarf.
Cubes by Hazera Begum

My work is mainly focused around photography, as I have had an interest in keeping records of memories with photographs for a long time. In addition to this my work utilises collage which I explore digitally through Photoshop. I was particularly motivated to create more experiments when I had unexpected outcomes and unanticipated results.

The meanings behind why I have chosen to use these types of media for my work is that I wanted to be able to portray how young women frequently cover their faces in social media imagery and due to this, I have decided to keep the links to both the technological context and the use of digital photographic processes. I also used collage to present that there are multiple ways to cover the face and conceal ones identity and while exploring with collage it have proved to be a creative approach to experiment alongside photography. 

Originally, I took photographs around my home and outside as a way to portray a way of living indoors and outdoors and comparing the two. Moreover, I asked friends to send me digital selfies with selected objects from around their home that they felt described their personality. This aimed to portray how identity can be shown through interior design. Recent themes that I have developed are around concealed identity, domestic spaces, religion and culture.

I am especially interested in the impacts of identity and the history of religion and culture on my work. Some of my individual pieces that bring my practice together are related to visual, storytelling, religion, culture and perhaps art as activism? The collage work of John Stezaker has been a significant influence during this year.In a way, my work is a way to try and raise awareness regarding how women try to conceal their identity sometimes because of the pressures of societyor their religion. As a young South Asian woman, I am guided to explore the issues of women being told to do and what not to do as both generational and societal burdens.

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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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a photograph of three ceramic pots on a light blue fabric. the ceramics are odd shaped vases and are glazed in green , blue and red.
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A colour photograph showing two fabric collages on a white background. The collage on the right shows parts of a mens blazer that have been deconstructed. The fabric is in pieces and layered onto of one and other. A leopard print fabric replaces the body. The words 'Be Strong and Couragous' are written in pink on a white piece of fabric. In the fabric collage on the right the words 'you are perfect' are stitched in pink and written on off-white fabric. A photograph pf three women is printed onto fabric and layered underneath alongside other elements of a deconstructed mens blazer.
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