Photographs are visually woven across the glass plates of a scanner bed and a back-lit animation stand, threading through narratives of exile, displacement, and profound joy: my great aunt's architectural attempts to connect the home ...See morePhotographs are visually woven across the glass plates of a scanner bed and a back-lit animation stand, threading through narratives of exile, displacement, and profound joy: my great aunt's architectural attempts to connect the home landscapes of Tajikistan to her German living room in Darmstadt. This is the second video in an emerging series centered on the unrecognized art practices of women in my family. From installation and sculpture to textile works and conceptual writing practices, each video hones in on a specific work, approach, or wider practice of a barely-legible artist, whose diasporic perspectives are grounded in the experience of shifting geographies and temporalities, diasporic translation, and intergenerational materiality and understanding.
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