Mother

2020 HD Film 16 minutes
Ishaq’s film ‘Mother’ weaves relationships with his mother and unravels memories between their recollection, in a conversation centred around a fifty-year-old photograph of his mother. The photograph is treated as a family archive; an object that carries its own story. 

The artist moves through spaces, gathering up histories and memories that are lost or covered over in the movement of displacement and begins to produce new knowledge. By exploring the photograph with his mother, and involving her in his art practice, a space is created where they normally would not overlap. He carefully explores the photograph and the surface as skin, untangling his mother's memories and thoughts. The film shows the repair process of the photograph occurring in the bright space of the virtual environment. The photograph is a transitional object. Objects could be considered as any external object that a person creates a bond or relationship with. The house is explored concurrently, just as his mother's home, faith and prayer are shown as stable and strong as the walls of the house.