GCD PROJECTS | Sana

Culture Lost and Found is a three columned composition of animations and illustrations displaying the chemistry between the past and the present form of Cultural rituals. Rituals are sequences of collective activities to reach desired ends, which are considered as socially essential. This also includes daily routines. This is a documentary capturing an average day of three generations of my family to capture and archive the evolution of daily routine and how generational change inform cultural identity.  

Conflict with identity is rooted in its implications of “sameness” and it is inevitable to include external variables such as artefacts, practices, experiences. While investigating my relation to identity through this project, I tried to challenge the fixed glance at identity. In his 1996 essay ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’, the theorist Stuart Hall argued that cultural identity is not only a matter a ‘being’ but of ‘becoming’, ‘belonging as much to the future as it does to the past’.

-storytelling

-commentary within images