FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Lengthy Island, New York, USA. Mara Ahmed writes, “My artwork apply is invested in trespassing borders and, as Gloria Anzaldua mentioned, ‘in reconceptualizing variations by disrupting racial, political, and cultural demarcations the endeavor to decolonize information, carry the voices of the oppressed, and construct neighborhood shapes my work throughout a number of disciplines and narrative codecs.’ The non-public is rigorously political in my apply…I attempt to straddle variations and make sense of what’s jarring and at odds. I’m excited by patterns and mathematical stability, within the shifting sense of area created by tessellation in Islamic artwork, and the Afrofuturist thought of hacking linearity to put declare to a extra equitable future. These are a number of the concepts that animate my work.” Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.