Tania Qurashi

My work explores the cultural and racial melancholy of my identity as the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan and Guatemala. Through paintings and drawings, I explore objects, vessels, and symbols from my parents’ homelands to reconcile with multiple histories and heritages. Objects become vessels of exchange between cultures and generations, as well as channels to explore the romantic, religious, personal, and the political. Often, the objects are paired with flowers from both real and imagined gardens as a way to explore longings and romances. The distance between the flowers and objects are symbolic of the distances in the diasporic experiences and between one and another.