Aqsa Arif
b. Pakistan
Lives and works in Glasgow
Aqsa Arif, 3. Spicy Pink Tea, 2022, film
Working across film, installation and poetry, Aqsa Arif explores identity disruption, displacement, migration and the process of healing through archetypal narratives. As a Pakistani refugee to Scotland, she experienced life with the split of two cultural identities, a polarity underpinning her work.
In Marvi and the Churail Arif explores two particular female archetypes in South Asian folktales in this new film installation: the moral heroine Umar Marvi from the Seven Queens of Sindh and the ghost-witch Churail told in horror stories. Framed ornately by a bejewelled structure around the screens, Arif’s two-channel dialogic film articulates the multiplicity of women and unites their anti-patriarchal stories.
Aqsa Arif has presented work at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, (Glasgow, 2023-24), UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, 2022-24, Jupiter Artland, (Edinburgh, 2022)Gallery of Modern Art, (Glasgow 2021-22) and, Tate Modern, (London, 2019)
Jerwood Survey III
Workshop: Aqsa Arif
Links :
https://www.aqsaarif.com/
