Can you See Me Still?
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2019
Artist: Sara Gulamali
Dimensions:
Duration: 3 min
Medium: MP4
Object number: MISC.2019.99.CC
DescriptionThe film is 2 minutes and 27 seconds, however replays on loop 9:43 seconds.
1 of 5 Editions & 2 AP’s Film
ABOUT THE PIECE
The work Can you See Me Still? Follows a performative use of the green screen, around Kings Cross. The artist uses the green screen as a nomad space, which can become anything, transform someone anywhere- as a result it becomes a surrogate representation of the ‘othered’ body. In reference to the position of the artist as a ‘third culture kid’ - (someone who balances the culture of their parents, with the land that they are living in, to create a new hybrid culture- in Sara’s case, her British-Pakistani-Muslim identity) - someone who is able to perform appropriately in different spaces, but never acting completely whole in any one space. Additionally, the act of covering ones body with a shroud also has connotations alluding to specifically a brown muslim body. When exploring a private space like Kings Cross, covered up, the relationship between the muslim body, land, and surveillance, all comes into question. As a result, the green becomes an overall signifier for these many different avenues, as it cannot be pinned down to any one idea. It explores the world simply just digested as an alien, as not ‘normal’.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sara Gulamali (1997) is a graduate from the BA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her practice inhabits a number of roles, whether it be writer, curator, facilitator, performer, filmmaker and collaborator. Specifically, her practice can be defined as a post colonial, radical interruption to the navigation of a post-modern society. Sara takes inspiration from her families diasporic history, and her identity as a second generation, Muslim, Pakistani woman, living in Britain. Sara also is known for her co-running the photography collective Muslim Sisterhood, and cocurating the first student led show at the Lethaby Gallery, The Age of New Babylon. She is also the winner of the 2018 Hollyport prize and shortlisted for the MLG Nova Prize in 2019.
Instagram - @isarag Website- www.saragulamali.com Email - saragulamali74@gmail.com
ABOUT THE PIECE
The work Can you See Me Still? Follows a performative use of the green screen, around Kings Cross. The artist uses the green screen as a nomad space, which can become anything, transform someone anywhere- as a result it becomes a surrogate representation of the ‘othered’ body. In reference to the position of the artist as a ‘third culture kid’ - (someone who balances the culture of their parents, with the land that they are living in, to create a new hybrid culture- in Sara’s case, her British-Pakistani-Muslim identity) - someone who is able to perform appropriately in different spaces, but never acting completely whole in any one space. Additionally, the act of covering ones body with a shroud also has connotations alluding to specifically a brown muslim body. When exploring a private space like Kings Cross, covered up, the relationship between the muslim body, land, and surveillance, all comes into question. As a result, the green becomes an overall signifier for these many different avenues, as it cannot be pinned down to any one idea. It explores the world simply just digested as an alien, as not ‘normal’.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sara Gulamali (1997) is a graduate from the BA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her practice inhabits a number of roles, whether it be writer, curator, facilitator, performer, filmmaker and collaborator. Specifically, her practice can be defined as a post colonial, radical interruption to the navigation of a post-modern society. Sara takes inspiration from her families diasporic history, and her identity as a second generation, Muslim, Pakistani woman, living in Britain. Sara also is known for her co-running the photography collective Muslim Sisterhood, and cocurating the first student led show at the Lethaby Gallery, The Age of New Babylon. She is also the winner of the 2018 Hollyport prize and shortlisted for the MLG Nova Prize in 2019.
Instagram - @isarag Website- www.saragulamali.com Email - saragulamali74@gmail.com