Kill Your Desires

To mark South Asian Heritage Month our Engagement Coordinator, Zoya Bhatti, commissioned a short film by Huckleberry Films about our longstanding relationship and work with local Mums2Mums group. In this evocative film, the group of local women of Pakistani South Asian heritage that make up Mums 2 Mums, look back on the emotional processes and thinking that led to the birth of Kill Your Desires.

Kill Your Desires has been inspired by conversations over the past year between Mums 2 Mums and In-Situ; a coming together of women from differing backgrounds, cultures and situations sharing intimate, ordinary and profound experiences. The In-Situ team and Mums 2 Mums brought together these shared words and ideas to create a playful space in Nelson Library, or as we've called it, 'a kind of Wendy house for grown-ups.

The creative process invited us all on a journey of intercultural learning; sharing, adjusting, workshopping - continually evolving our practice as the stories unfurled. The resulting installation and visual designs hint at petals, hidden layers, the feminine, divine, reverence; using shapes that reflect the idea of elasticity, elastic bands between the generations, flowing, expanding and contracting in time.