Gazes and Spaces an art show with queer artists of colour curated by Elmira Zadissa and Ramona Zadissa. The show was part of queer qandī festival. The festival was the first event that we organised for QTI Coalition of Colour which is a network we founded. The aim to not only raise awareness about issues faced by QTI BIPoC but… Read more →
Tulip Series is our response to the accelerating climate crisis and environmental disasters we have now come to expect as parts of our daily lives. Tulip Series was exhibited at Green Peace Group Exhibition at Christ’s Pieces in Cambridge, autumn 2019. Climate crisis Plastics Microplastics and nanoplastics are emerging concerns of global proportions. They are polluting water and land. In… Read more →
Inequality in beautiful Cambridge Untitled.In.Equality is a collage by Zadissa sisters about inequality in Cambridge. It is a commissioned piece for the True Tales of Change project initiated by The Cambridge Commons and Pivotal. Five Cambridge based artists and a songwriter were commissioned to create works inspired by conversations with Cambridge people who have experienced inequality. Mrs B. We had… Read more →
Ephemeral Lines was our art residency project at Milton Keynes Arts Centre 2020. The project was initially aimed to examine if the architecture, cultural provision and infrastructure of Milton Keynes reflected on the city’s inhabitants and affected their sense of belonging to the city. Due to the lockdown following the pandemic, instead, we decided to examine the importance of human… Read more →
This work is inspired by “Better to Speak Remembering” in A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde. It was part of The Creaction Series: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice organised at the Institute for Advanced Studies at UCL. The series brought together performers, artists, writers and academics, whose work focuses on social justice. This is an excerpt from our… Read more →
