A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
Articles
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.
This timely and thoughtful review dives into the symbolic use of materials referencing Persian folktales and manuscript traditions in “A Hundred Times, Why?” by Azadeh Elmizadeh.
“Artists like Alize Zorlutuna highlight the ways in which we cannot be silently complicit anymore—but more importantly, that the only way we can escape disaster is to decolonize our thinking and walk the path of better relations with the help of the Indigenous peoples of all lands.”
Tazeen Qayyum reflects on her career as an artist in both Pakistan and Canada, sharing a selection of her artworks which have informed her artistic practice and contrasting cultural experiences in both countries.