New MIRROR short released for Huma Mulji’s Your Tongue in My Mouth

Following the conclusion of Huma Mulji’s solo exhibition Your Tongue in My Mouth, MIRROR have published a new short covering the ideas central to Mulji’s exhibition.

Detailing various productions stages of the exhibition, the short film sees Mulji discuss the cultural histories behind her works as well as making astute reflections on how her work transforms between the studio and exhibition space.

Immediately after independence in August 1947, the government of Pakistan began the long process that would, over the next few decades, modify street names, discard memorials, reshape cultural markers, revise school textbooks, weekends, architecture, law and language. To heal the deep wounds of partition, and in a hurry to distance itself from anything un-Islamic, centuries of syncretic cultural and religious rituals were slowly stripped away, eroded and transformed in collective memory.

Your Tongue in My Mouth explores collective memory, time, place and belonging; complicating accepted historical linearity, placing two worlds in parallel entanglement, taking the viewer to glimpse geographies other than their own and to re-read illegible stories.

You can watch the full video as part of our dedicated Document and Location YouTube playlist here.