For Edge’s 4th annual contemporary art festival, Kazmi proposes a reimagining of her project After Jahangir, exploring the depths of alter egos and shadow selves. Drawing inspiration from the theme of SUPER FLEX, Kazmi creates an immersive platform that invites viewers to confront and engage with the hidden facets of identity embedded within San Francisco’s Chinatown. Collaborating with elders, cultural ambassadors, and experts, Kazmi uncovers the layered histories, unspoken narratives, and cultural objects that embody multiplicity within the community.

Visitors are encouraged to step into this multiplicity by posing with objects while being photographed in the tradition of Jahangir. Through embodying Jahangir’s gesture, Kazmi invites viewers to explore the complexity of identity, challenging our understanding of matter, non-exploitative commitments, cultural specificity, and self-inhabitation. 

 

About Asma Kazmi​

Asma Kazmi is a new media artist and a professor of art at UC Berkeley. She creates art installations that blend physical and virtual spaces and objects. Using transgressive curatorial tactics, she combines visual and textual fragments from historical manuscripts, photographs, and archival material, mixing them with her own critical fabulation to tell stories about colonial and indigenous technologies, Islamic culture, global flows of people and commodities, and interspecies entanglements. Asma’s recent exhibitions include: Gray Area, San Francisco; Goethe Institute, San Francisco; Galerie Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China; San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco; Museo Historico Municipal de Ecija, Spain; the Espacio Laraña, University of Seville, Spain; the Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii in Honolulu; Faraar Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit; Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA.

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Asma Kazmi 是新媒體藝術家，亦在加州大學柏克萊分校擔任教授。她的裝置藝術作品，揉合具體以及虛擬的空間和物件。她以「越界」的策展策略，將文獻手稿、相片及歷史檔案資料共冶一爐，加上其批判性虛構敘事（critical fabulation），述說殖民與原住民科技、伊斯蘭文化、全球人口與商品的流通，以及跨物種瓜葛糾纏的故事。Asma 的作品近期於以下機構展出：三藩市 Gray Area、三藩市哥德學院、法國巴黎 Galerie Cité internationale des arts、中國深圳深港城市\建築雙城雙年展、三藩市藝術委員會畫廊、西班牙 Museo Historico Municipal de Ecija、西班牙塞維亞大學 Espacio Laraña、檀香山夏威夷大學 the Commons Gallery、巴基斯坦卡拉奇 Faraar Gallery、底特律 Elaine L. Jacob Gallery、三藩市 Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art，以及加州 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art。