When Ashfika Rahman was a child in Bangladesh, her mother worked as an activist and social worker in a border region strictly controlled by state security forces, providing legal support to Indigenous women who had been subjected to violence. Witnessing her mother’s efforts is the well from which Rahman’s present practice springs – a body of work that she describes as an archive of social injustice. ‘I follow in [my mother’s] footsteps and reflect on the issues she dealt with from my perspective as an artist and a pedagogue,’ Rahman tells me.
19 February 2025
