Frames of Recollected Memories (2024)

Multimedia Installation

Thesis Show
Part of DISPLAYCED 2024 Supported by The Supporting Act Foundation

^{Ghar: Frames of recollected memories}

^{My thesis project from the Maastricht Academy of Arts, took the form of a multimedia installation debuted at DISPLAYCED 2024,

C.V. Landbouwbelang (NL). It invites the audience into the journey of recollected, restored and reformed memories of my beloved grandmother, Fareeda Khatoon.}

^{Central to the installation is a short video work documenting my grandmother, a Bombay soul in a post 1947 Karachi as she looks back at her life and identity sculpted from the fragments of a divided homeland. The film is a visual chronicle of Fareeda’s life and my love for her, as the premise involves compiling collective memories through several one-on-one exercises. .}

^{The installation also consists of several archival pieces including expired passports, photographic documents, silverware, and jewelry from my family alongside excerpts of my travel, process, and thoughts from my Journal
“گھر کی کتاب : Volume I”.}

^{Materials: digital video 23:48 min on silver screen, prints (297 x 420 mm), found suitcases, glass vitrines,

archival material (1951-2001)
Dimensions: 21.8 × 7.5 m.
Year: 2024}