Join GLOAM Gallery for artist Nisa Khan's Undress me with your eyes... The exhibition explores South-Asian dance performances known as Mujra, and visual representations of their female dancers.
Nisa Khan is a Derby-based artist working across video-performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Nisa explores Pakistani/British-Pakistani multiculturalism and diaspora. Their work involves their body, memories, historical references, popular culture, and cultural signifiers. Nisa is particularly interested in providing alternative representations of brown and marginalised bodies, addressing cultural expectations of women.
Nisa is currently researching South-Asian dance performances known as Mujra. Before Britain’s colonisation of India, Mujra was considered an elite art form and a pinnacle of Mughal art. Contemporary Mujra is enjoyed globally, however it's performers are exploited, face heavy censorship, and exist on the margins of society. For GLOAM Gallery, Nisa exhibits new works that focus on the visual representation of Mujra’s female dancers (Tawaif), based on studies of Indian miniatures and Indian/Pakistani/Punjabi craft heritage dolls.
Exhibition open Saturdays 12–4pm, or at other times by appointment.
Opening evening:
19 January, 6–9pm, free
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