Station 10

Carpet One: Unveiled and Carpet Two: Veiled, digital printed on woven polyester, 152.4 x 91.44 cm each. Images courtesy of the artist.

As a South African Muslim the diaspora of my cultural heritage and creative interpretation allows me to creatively address the current global rise of Islamophobia. My praxis plays on Oriental constructed anxieties; it is instructed in my designs to open up the issue of racial religious prejudice and the misunderstanding of Islam, in recognition of the auspices time frame in our current socio-political environment.

My artistic intent identifies heavily with my Islamic culture to honour and maintain the principles of traditional eastern art techniques and utilise western processes. With reference to creatively cross-cultural boundaries through contemporary post-modern ideas of socio-political spiritual conflict. By focusing on the persecution and plight of dislocation and trauma of the Arab Muslim and Syrian refugees.

My diverse background grants multifarious points of entry to add to a socio-cultural dialogue in facilitating a discourse concerning the body, unveiled as a political and public symbol and the veiled spiritual, private and sacred body. All interconnected directly and indirectly with ideas of incorporeality but also respecting the relationship and inter-connectedness between Islam and Christianity.