MIRROR | Your Tongue in My Mouth by Huma Mulji

<p dir="ltr"><strong><a href="http://www.mirrorplymouth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MIRROR</a> presents <a href="https://mirrorplymouth.com/whats-on/your-tongue-in-my-mouth" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Your Tongue in My Mouth</em> by Huma Mulji</a></strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong><strong>Fri 22 July 2022 - Weds 14 Sept 2022</strong></strong></p> <p>Immediately after independence in August 1947, the government of Pakistan began the long process that would, over the next few decades, modify street names, discard memorials, reshape cultural markers, revise school textbooks, weekends, architecture, law and language. To heal the deep wounds of partition, and in a hurry to distance itself from anything unIslamic, centuries of syncretic cultural and religious rituals were slowly stripped away, eroded and transformed in collective memory.<br /></p> <p>Growing up in Karachi, Mulji navigated her way between the disembodied heads and limbs of discarded statues, in the back corridors of Mohatta Palace, then the abandoned home of Fatima Jinnah. In an article in <em>The Herald</em> magazine from 1994, she came across a vivid description of a pedestal outside the Karachi Municipal Corporation Headquarters. This year, the artist journeyed back to Karachi to find this plinth. In the process, stumbling upon other fragments of the memorial. The body of resulting work presented here centres on collective memory, time, place and belonging; complicating accepted historical linearity, placing two worlds in parallel entanglement, taking the viewer to glimpse geographies other than their own and to re-read illegible stories.</p> <p>Huma Mulji is based in Bristol with a studio at Spike Island. Alongside her practice she teaches BA (Hons) Fine Art, at UWE Bristol, and previously at Arts University Plymouth. She is represented by Project88, Mumbai.</p> <p>Her work centres on observing the everyday within urban geographies, particularly across South Asia. She is interested in telling the story of a nebulous combination of the dysfunctional, the heroic, the sorrowful and the resilient. Mulji works across media, with a focus on sculpture, installation and photography.<br /></p> <p>Huma Mulji is one of two artists selected for <a href="https://mirrorplymouth.com/projects/south-west-showcase" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The South West Showcase</a> 2022. SWS is a recurring open call platform (est. 2013), showcasing artists from across the South West region. The showcase aims to support artists working and living in the South West through a year-long programme of mentoring and support with an exhibition outcome; presenting a long-term commitment to profiling and supporting the practises of artists in this region.</p><figure style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;"></figure><p dir="ltr"><strong><strong>Join us for the opening event on Thursday 21 July from 5pm-7pm.<br /></strong></strong><br />—<br /></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.mirrorplymouth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MIRROR</a> is a public gallery, events programme and online resource based out of and supported by Plymouth College of Art. For upcoming exhibitions and events visit <a href="http://www.mirrorplymouth.com/" target="_blank" dir="ltr" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.mirrorplymouth.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">—</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Opening times:</strong><br />Monday-Friday: 9am - 5pm,<br />Saturday: 10am - 2pm<br />Sunday: Closed</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Please note, it is free to visit MIRROR. The gallery is closed every Sunday.</strong><strong><strong><br /></strong></strong></p>