Mammal Matrix (Mama)

Mammal Matrix (MaMa) consists of a looped animation of still photography images showing a colourful and vividly textured composition of bedding materials, fabrics and objects in constant transformation seen from bird-eye’s view. The painterly material collages reference death and birth beds, and bear witness to possible rites of passages that are lived and performed in them.

The image sequence is accompanied by a mesmerising spoken text taking the audience on a cosmic journey through multiple states of deaths and re-births, from the edge of the universe into a womb on planet earth. The protagonists of this journey are a basilosaurus, a chicken, a sesame seed and a meteorite; phenomena that are all loosely referencing ancient cultural and geological history of the region that makes up today’s Pakistan.