Deeqa Ismail - MFA Fine Art
Deeqa Ismail (b. 1988, Hargeisa, Somalia) works across printmaking, sound, video and an object-based practice. Often using printmaking as the first anchor point, she moves between materials and media to create spaces that are at once present and in flux. Her practice works closely with her family archives as a way of thinking about time and Somali culture's “stuck-ness”.
Central to their practice is an obsession with time travel. This fascination is not neutral. Often feeling trapped by her attraction to these forms and their haunted cycles. However, instead of seeking to escape these repetitions, Ismail's work moves towards inhabiting them, making visible what it feels like to live inside cycles of return and media that refuse to die.
Through Ismail's practice, they aim to carve out a space for other futures to emerge, futures that radiate beyond recycled time.
