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Becoming Nature

By  Asuf Ishaq 2018

Ishaq makes casts of his own diasporic body, knees and elbows, which resemble perhaps a giant seed to be grown and nurtured. And a promise of return. Parts of the body carry an archive of sensorial memory that transmits experiences, evocations and traumas across generations. 
Conceptually, he draw inspiration from Édouard Glissant’s writing, specifically Poetics of Relation, his conception of Rhizomatic and fluid identity, and ideas of rootedness and uprootedness. Ishaq’s practice incorporates land and soil, recognizing its symbolic significance as both a beginning and an endpoint, a transtemporal portal, an archive of migration.

A I Asuf Ishaq

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