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On the opening day of her first UK presentation of the ‘first chapter’ from her work Sea Change, artist Hajra Waheed discusses her practice with The Mosaic Rooms’ director Rachael Jarvis at the ICA.

Waheed’s oeuvre seeks to address personal, national and cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad impact of colonial power globally. She will discuss the on-going project Sea Change, commenced in 2011 this is a visual novel and multimedia archive which revolves around the journey and disappearance of nine persons in the name of salvation, a better life or new one, as well as her wider work.

Over the last decade, Hajra Waheed has participated in exhibitions worldwide, including: currently showing The Cyphers, Baltic; Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2014); Sea Change, Experimenter, Kolkata (2013); (In) the First Circle, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona and Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY (2012). Recipient of the prestigious 2014 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement as a Canadian mid-career visual artist, her works can be found in a number of permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the British Museum, London, the Burger Collection, Zurich and Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi. She lives and works in Montréal.

This talk is part of Culture Now, a series of lively Friday lunchtime conversations with key figures from the contemporary arts scene held at the ICA.