Ayesha Mohyuddin
Jewelry + Metalsmithing MFA
Rhode Island School of Design
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Jewellery / Art Performance / Contemporary Craft
My location: Seattle, United States
Ayesha Mohyuddin
First Name: Ayesha
Last Name: Mohyuddin
University / College: Rhode Island School of Design
Course / Program: Jewelry + Metalsmithing MFA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Jewellery / Art Performance / Contemporary Craft
My Location: Seattle, United States
Website: Click To See Website
About
Ayesha Mohyuddin is a contemporary jewelry artist who explores identity, spirituality, and ways of knowing through body-related objects and performance. Ayesha is interested in capturing the complexities of home, history, and identity through material, ritual, performance, and eating. Her recent work uses food, cooking, and the tools of the kitchen to express the physicality of nostalgia, identity, and history. Ayesha’s work is rooted in Islamic material culture, cooking, and her upbringing in a Bangladeshi Muslim household in rural Tennessee.Born and raised in Tennessee, Ayesha received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis, and has exhibited internationally at Athens Jewelry Week.
Luminous Eating strives to reorient my gaze away from outward definitions of identity toward the complexities and nuances of experiencing the intersections of identity that comprise me and the space of home where I felt most extended. I do not want to essentialize the identifiers of Muslim, Bengali, and Tennessean, nor do I want to neglect the role memory and nostalgia play in shaping home as a place of expansion and ease. Food, cooking, and eating ground both nostalgia and identity in something physical. Through the sense of taste, I reorient myself to the inseparability of experience that cannot be contained by labels.
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