Khadija Aziz
About Khadija
Khadija Aziz is a Pakistani-Canadian craft artist and educator based in Toronto. Her practice is rooted in textiles, a medium that carries erased histories of labour, migration, and cultural knowledge. She investigates transformation and memory, with a growing focus on how personal and cultural narratives migrate and shift across generations and geographies. Aziz holds an MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from OCAD University, both in textile art. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio.
About the Project
I will research the role of the handmade in sustaining communities. How does the handmade build community, and how does community inform what is produced? How can living a life in which our chosen communities are ingrained sustain our sense of self?
Community and a sense of belonging are crucial in sustaining our mental and physical well-being. What can we learn about our sense of self and community through making during contemporary society’s obsession with mass production and disconnection? For example, how does the reemergent practice of repairing and mending act as a form of resistance and disobedience? How does craft become a radical vessel for unlearning capitalist-colonial ideologies of consumerism and individualism?
