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| Film still, Mother, (2020), Asuf Ishaq |
Artist and Glasgow School of Art lecturer, Asuf Ishaq ,will have his first solo exhibition next month. Running in the Reid Gallery at The Glasgow School of Art from 2 – 22 February 2023, Articles of Home features film and sculptural works drawing on his experience of migration as a child and the stories of his parents of migration .
Ishaq’s wide range of practice encompasses sculpture, video and sound which unravels personal narratives, emotions, sacrifices and adventure. In his work he unfolds geographical and cultural dislocation by revisiting personal archives and reimagining the experience, weaving memories and imagined time, place and relationships.
In Articles of Home the explores a personal journey – inventing and re-inventing himself, through film and installation. Through fragmented narratives and technologies, and weaving together of fiction, and non-fiction he unravels and reimagines experience.
The film, Mother weaves relationships with his mother and unravels memories between their recollection, in a conversation centred around a fifty-year-old photograph. The photograph is treated as a family archive; an object that carries its own story. Tape Letter is reimagining the voice letter between his mother and her mother. Not Quite Alive s a sculptural installation combining moving image, sculpture and sound. This work explores reinvention, hybridity and belonging, with an alien figure, waiting patiently, sitting near a monstrous seed. The sculpture Becoming Nature is a representation of his own diasporic body. The body limb becomes a seed to plant in new soil in new ground.
Meanwhile, the recent film Articles of Home , commissioned by ICA London for Image Behaviour, explores a geographical space at his mother’s home in Kashmir, Pakistan, that is submerged underwater for part of the year. During the dry season, the land is available for farming. ‘Articles of Home’ explores what happens when this space can only be accessed temporarily, just as a recollection of memories.
This exhibition was selected from an Open Call for proposals from GSA staff and students. Ishaq teaches on the BA (Hons) Sculpture & Environmental Art and Master of Fine Art courses at GSA.
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Listing
2 – 22 February 2023
Asuf Ishaq: Articles of Home
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 162 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3
The first solo exhibition by artist Asuf Ishaq featuring film and sculptural works drawing on his experience of migration as a child and the stories of his parents of migration .
Open Monday-Saturday 10am – 4.30pm. Entry free
https://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/a/articles-of-home
Artist Biography
Ishaq grew up in Birmingham and works between Birmingham, London and Glasgow. He graduated with MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College of Art in 2020. Recent exhibitions include Image Behaviour film commission from ICA London (2021-22), Bloomberg New Contemporaries at South London Gallery and Firstsite in Colchester (2021-22), Grounding online group film screening at Goldsmiths CCA (2021). Inside the Country of the Skin, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham (solo) (2021). The London Open exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery (2022).