Baseera Khan
“I make work to discuss materials and their economies, the effects of this relationship to labor, to family structures, religion, or spirituality, to reveal the intersections of power and culture. This dichotomy holds history and I like to disrupt their inherited visual legacies through body performances, collage, and installation. Making layers in my work that fit besides, on top, in between, and underneath creates numerous projects that evoke senses of living under surveillance, finding desire, living between the mental state of exile and kinship. I generate installations of concealment, momentary reflections, and sanctuary. My life's work is dedicated to the development of my own legacy, on my own terms, with the use of fashion, photography, textiles and music, parody, sculpture and performance, I manifest my femme native-born Muslim American experience.”