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Farheen Haq, Artist – Victoria

Farheen Haq is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Lekwungen territory (Victoria, BC). She was born and raised on Haudenosanee territory (Niagara region, Ontario) amongst a tight-knit Muslim community. Her family roots are from Bihar, India, and Karachi, Pakistan. Farheen works with video, textile, installation, and performance to explore personal, familial, cultural, and political reconciliations. Farheen’s current work is focused on the teachings of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and how it can be applied to settler-Indigenous relationships on Turtle Island through culture making and ceremony. Her newest textile work is currently showing at Open Space Arts Society Victoria.

  1. Love Language by Ali Sethi

This brand new album is all the things I am obsessed with these days: Urdu, ghazals, desire, sufi/bhakti futurism, banging beats to dance to, and LOVE.

  1. Wild roses

Wild roses grow along the ocean where I live. I harvest the petals in spring and summer for tea and ceremony.  I collect the hips in fall (super high in Vitamin C). I have been embroidering rosehips on a textile project. This summer, I have been making rose lemonade. The colour and flavour is divine.

  1. Urdu Ghazals

I’ve been embroidering Mirza Ghalib’s Ishrat-e-qatra for the past ten months for a community-engaged textile project. I am in awe of the ghazal: it can hold contradiction, mystery, longing, and love. It is sensual, embraces the full spectrum of emotions and identities we can inhabit, and often challenges society and rules.

  1. Moonrise

I began to watch the full moonrise as a pandemic ritual with my teen daughter, which morphed into family and community watch parties with dancing, poetry, and tea. Everyone knows the beauty of a sunset and sunrise; few talk about the magic of the moonrise.

  1. Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

My favourite summer read for this year. This book hit all the right notes for me: sexy, political, intelligent, hilarious. It’s about a UN worker deradicalizing ISIS brides, which you wouldn’t think of as a summer read, but it’s easy to read and hard to put down.

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