Anika Alamin

Drawing from my cultural heritage, this woven textile explores the qualities of Dhaka muslin and investigates British colonial rulein Bangladesh using Indigo and jute. British art institutions and museums are rooted in coloniality. The juxtaposition of European looms with the use of traditional Bangladeshi Jamdani weaving technique allows the work to respond to the space, an opportunity previously inaccessible to Bangladeshi women. Heritage, Erasure, Silenced, Passage are words are collected from members of the Bangladeshi Diaspora community in Brick Lane, these words, and the names of the important women figures in my life have been recorded into the textile.