My work explores my lived experience as a British- Pakistani second-generation immigrant. I do this with writing and performance to navigate the complexities of diaspora on a personal level. I perform the writing in the form of spoken word to convey the immediacy and emotion behind my topic. The use of writing and poetry as a performative art form also stems from the culture of shayari (Urdu poetry). Words are powerful and my work plays with power, the loss and gain of it from a post-colonial stance voicing my narrative as a product of the internal conflict of living in the land that colonised mine. Examining ancestral wounds and their scars left in an act of healing.
Past Shows
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 […]