Digital Sufi Shrine I

December 2017 | Gray Area, San Francisco

Digital Sufi Shrine is an experience rooted in nostalgia and re-imagination. It is an ongoing body of work that merges fragments from my memories with physical and digital technologies and new narratives to create immersive spaces.

Sufism and Sufi music was a significant part of my life when I was coming of age in Pakistan. It’s considered to be subversive because it's unorthodox and is often practiced through music, dance, poetry, and intoxication which is very contrary to mainstream Islam. I connected with how fluid and expansive it was and it continues to be an important part of my identity and ideology. 

This project is an homage to Sufi shrines across Pakistan that are frequently attacked, mutating from beautiful, sacred spaces into sites of violence.