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Articles
“The existence of Indigenous public institutions…creates a red shift within a community’s cultural imaginary.” –Felicia Gay, The Red Shift: A Contemporary Aboriginal Curatorial Praxis, 2011.
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
Guest Editor of BlackFlash issue 38.3, Nadia Kurd, talks to Jamelie Hassan about her past work, her influences, and how she has researched and interpreted the visual traditions found in Muslim-majority nations.
Photographer and mental health professional, Faisa Omer, welcomes Timiro Mohamed into her apartment and studio to share how she uses photography to tell socio-political stories, amplify voices in her community, and increase visibility of Muslim women in modest fashion.
“Immigrant stories can be reduced to East-meets-West moments, but Tahir more truthfully converts them into the points in time when new geographical threads are woven.”
Sanaa Humayun reflects on a meaningful conversation with artist Habiba El-Sayed, considering her diverse approach to ceramics which investigates the influence of the Western gaze on the lives of Muslim women.
Reflecting on the tenacity of her grandmother, Yasmeen Nematt Alla discusses ritual, connection to land, family work, and housekeeping of the self through the multidisciplinary work of South Asian Muslim Canadian artist, Farheen HaQ.