Kill Your Desires

Kill Your Desires is the culmination of a series of conversations over the past year between Mums 2 Mums and In-Situ team members Anna Taylor and Zoya Bhatti; 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.

At the end of the project, 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.