Self Aware
Solo Show
May 8-28 2023
Granoff Center for Creative Arts, 3s Floor, Providence, RI
There is a power in knowing who you are. And for women, the need to know how to define your identity is necessitated by the need to constantly perform. How often do we create ourselves on the basis of how we are perceived? And how often is that image influenced by our idea of what is feminine and what is beautiful?
In this series, I photograph the women in my life: those who raised me, those who grew with me and those who I met at a transformative point in my life, each of which influenced my own perception of myself. This project is personal, and aims to recognize the ways in which womanhood intersects with other aspects of identity, and how conceptions of femininity differ across physical spaces. My photographs, taken in Pakistan and Providence, aim to acknowledge spaces of comfort, of change, of loss and of birth through a gaze that is female, and that knows that it is being watched in return.
Opening Day
Inclusive Femininity
April 10-17, 2023
Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, Providence, RI
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