LIKE RUSSIAN DOLLS, WE NEST IN PREVIOUS SELVES SHUROOQ AMIN CONTINUES TO CHALLENGE LOCAL PERSPECTIVES By bazaar staff
We like to describe our society as a modern one. We embrace the notion of modernity by dressing in the latest fashions, buying the newest smartphones, and following every trendy ‘habba’ to an exhaustive point. We affiliate with the idea of ‘modernity’, yet we still cling to a part of us that’s no longer there. Perhaps it’s your grandmother’s voice telling you that chewing gum isn’t ladylike, or your father telling you that career in the creative field isn’t going to be a fruitful one. You don’t necessarily disagree with these voices, but you do at the same time. Change isn’t a matter of absolutes, and in Shurooq Amin’s latest exhibition titled Like Russian Dolls, We Nest in Previous Selves, we’re invited to explore the notion of modernity and its varying idiosyncrasies.
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