Nina Mhach Durban, And You’ll Keep Watching Me (2022).
The physicality of Durban’s work demands a space for images of the often-marginalised bodies depicted. Large-scale and textural, the works often cover surfaces of institutional spaces with faces drawn from Bollywood – saturated, gigantic, the pixelated crops of gaping mouths and gazing eyes present an alternative method of archiving for diasporic communities and histories beyond colonial structures.
Nina Mhach Durban is a multidisciplinary artist preoccupied with physical and sensory ways of engaging with the diasporic experience. By way of a sculptural interaction with found images, she preserves and celebrates British Asian histories through the creation of an alternative, expanded archive, closely informed by her own familial experience of postcolonial migration. Nina graduated from Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2022.
