Zarina Muhammad
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Zarina Muhammad's long-term interdisciplinary project involves critically re-examining oral histories, ethnographic literature, and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia, demonstrating her artistic achievement and potential. Her works explore and encompass the polyphonic and poly sensorial state between nature, the environment, rituals, and spirituality, revealing her deeply grounded commitment to eco-feminism. Zarina's locally accumulated knowledge and engagement against the canonization and rationalization of Western modernity is evident in her works. Over the past few years, she has collaborated or worked independently on several installations, workshops, and lecture-performances, imbued with her understanding of the lived experience and belief system rooted in the region, including land, waterways, water bodies, and islands. She presents the mode of communal gathering and sharing, mythology, and spirituality embedded in Singapore and Malaysia's cultural landscape and tradition. Whilst the artist also reflects on how the urban space and its governing state has been dominantly ruling a way of seeing and addressing our environment, her embracing dialogs closely navigating sustainability in Southeast Asia and beyond constantly addresses necessary critical awareness of the overlaying numerous excluded voices of non-human beings and their lives threatened by the impact of ongoing human expansion.
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Zarina Muhammad’s long-term interdisciplinary project involves critically re-examining oral histories, ethnographic literature, and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia, demonstrating her artistic achievement and potential. Her works explore and encompass the polyphonic and poly sensorial state between nature, the environment, rituals, and spirituality, revealing her deeply grounded commitment to eco-feminism. Zarina’s locally accumulated knowledge and engagement against the canonization and rationalization of Western modernity is evident in her works. Over the past few years, she has collaborated or worked independently on several installations, workshops, and lecture-performances, imbued with her understanding of the lived experience and belief system rooted in the region, including land, waterways, water bodies, and islands. She presents the mode of communal gathering and sharing, mythology, and spirituality embedded in Singapore and Malaysia’s cultural landscape and tradition. Whilst the artist also reflects on how the urban space and its governing state has been dominantly ruling a way of seeing and addressing our environment, her embracing dialogs closely navigating sustainability in Southeast Asia and beyond constantly addresses necessary critical awareness of the overlaying numerous excluded voices of non-human beings and their lives threatened by the impact of ongoing human expansion.