Ayesha Mohyuddin

Luminous Eating

My work strives to reorient my gaze away from outward definitions of identity toward the complexities and nuances of experiencing the intersections of identity that comprise me and the space of home where I felt most extended. I do not want to essentialize the identifiers of Muslim, Bengali, and Tennessean, nor do I want to neglect the role memory and nostalgia play in shaping home as a place of expansion and ease. Food, cooking, and eating ground both nostalgia and identity in something physical. Through the sense of taste, I reorient myself to the inseparability of experience that cannot be contained by labels.

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Necklace made with five soapstone confection molds and saree fabric.

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Necklace made with five soapstone confection molds and saree fabric.

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Necklace made with three soapstone confection molds and saree fabric.

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Detail of necklace with five soapstone molds carved with bangla script with shondesh residue.

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Detail of necklace with three soapstone molds carved with bangla script with shondesh residue.

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Figure with white garment draped over a table wearing a necklace with soapstone molds pressing mishti against her chest .

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Carved soapstone arranged in a circular pattern around a small plate with the same black and green pattern

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Marble plate with pattern cut out from the rim

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Marble plate with shondesh extruded beneath  pierced pattern

 

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